Tradition 34 of 35
Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends
Mythic systems, traditional folklore, sacred and supernatural legends, fairy tales, and documented folk beliefs that preserve or contextualize magical, spiritual, anomalous, and otherworldly traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 20,091
- Earliest
- 1000
- to 2026
- Read free
- 72%
- 14,383 with public full text
- With covers
- 72%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match17,236
- Metadata match585
- Query match2,265
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Folklore3.6K
- Legends2.1K
- Fairy tales1.8K
- Tales1.5K
- Fiction1.4K
- History1.1K
- Mythology840
- Early works to 1800760
- Poetry694
- Juvenile fiction684
- Translations into English635
- Social life and customs617
- History and criticism530
- Drama509
- Juvenile literature491
- Religion485
- Greek Mythology475
- Superstition473
- Classical Mythology437
- Short Stories350
- Indians of North America341
- Children's stories334
- Horror tales293
- Biography292
Top languages
- English8,343 · 42%
- German4,162 · 21%
- French1,648 · 8%
- Latin836 · 4%
- NOT738 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- ca. v6. Jh Aesopus135 books
- Hans Christian Andersen102 in this tradition103 books
- Andrew Lang70 in this tradition83 books
- Charles Perrault66 in this tradition76 books
- Nathaniel Hawthorne64 in this tradition74 books
- ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus58 books
- Euripides56 in this tradition59 books
- Jacob Grimm55 books
- Benjamin Blake52 books
- Edgar Allan Poe51 in this tradition63 books
- Jean de La Fontaine50 in this tradition56 books
- Wilhelm Grimm50 in this tradition53 books
20,091 books
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Quaestiones de Orphei Argonauticorum elocutione
Johannes Rosenboom
1887Latin
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Quaestionum criticarum Sophoclearum. Specimen I. Dissertatio ...
Lud Schumacher
1868Latin
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Quarante questions adressées par les docteurs juifs au prophète Mahomet
Mewla Furati
1851French
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Quelques contes nubiens
Maxence de Chalvet marquis de Rochemonteix
1888French
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Quo tempore Sophoclis dipus rex acta sit
Hugo Hagelueken
1873Latin
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Rasavahini
Vedeha Thera
1898SIN
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Recension des buches "Aeschylos Eumeniden, griechisch und deutsch, mit erläuternden abhandlungen über die äuszere darstellung
Gottfried Hermann
1834German
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Recherches sur les monuments cyclopéens et description de la collection des modèles en relief ...
Petit-Radel M
1841
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Regia potestas quae fverit secvndvm Homervm
Albertvs E. Veckenstedt
1867Greek
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Remensiana, historiettes, le gendes et traditions du pays de Reims
Louis Paris
1845French
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Réminiscences populaires de la Provence
L.-J.-B Bérenger-Féraud
1885French
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Riddarasögur: Parcevals saga, Valvers þáttr, Ívents saga, Mírmans saga;
Eugen Kölbing
1872Icelandic
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Robert Reinicks M©Þrchen-, Lieder- und Geschichtenbuch
Robert Reinick
1896German
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Roggenwolf und Roggenhund: Beitrag zur germanischen Sittenkunde
Wilhelm Mannhardt
1865German
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Rudimenta mythologiae Semiticae. Supplementa lexici Aramaici
Paul de Lagarde
1848Latin
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Ruskyi s £pyvanyk
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1899Ukrainian
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Russian wonder tales
Post Wheeler
1912
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Russkai͡a︡ khristomatīi͡a︡: pami͡a︡tniki drevne-russkoĭ literatury i ..
Fedor Ivanovich Buslaev
1881Russian
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Russkiǐ narod, ego obychai, obriady, predaniia, suevieriia i poėziia
M. Zabylin
1880Russian
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Rédemption du genre humain
Hermann Joseph Schmitt
1827French
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Sabała
1897Polish
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Sagen des preussischen Samlandes
R. F. Reusch
1838German
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Sagen, Gebräuche und Märchen aus Westfalen: Und einigen andern, besonders den angrenzenden ..
Adalbert Kuhn
1859German
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Sagnkredsene om Karl den Store og Didrik af Bern hos de nordiske fole: Et bidrag til ..
Gustav Storm
1874Danish