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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Samlede afhandlinger af R. Keyser
Rudolph Keyser
1868Norwegian
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Sancta Agnes
Karl Bartsch
1869German
Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations
George Sinclair
1685
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Sbornik uralʹskikh kazachʹikh pi︠e︡sen
N. G. Mi︠a︡kushin
1890Russian
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Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde
Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde
1897German
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Scriptores rerum mythicarum latini tres romae nuper reperti
Georg Heinrich Bode
1834Latin
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Sefune temune ol
Gershon Enoch Leiner
1887
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Sermones de los misterios de nuestra santa fe catolica, en lengua castellana, y la general del Inca
Fernando de Avendaño
1648Latin
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Sgeuluidheacht Chúige Mumhan
Pádraig Ó Laoghaire
1895Irish
Shamans And Elders
Caroline Humphrey, Urgunge Onon
1996
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Sicialianische Märchen
Laura Gonzenbach
1870German
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Sindban, oder, Die sieben weisen meister
Sindbad the philosopher
1879German
Sinister Resonance
David Toop
2010
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Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven
Friedrich S Krauss
1885German
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Sjæledyrkelse og naturdyrkelse: bidrag til bestemmelsen af den mytologiske metode
Hans Sofus Vodskov
1897Danish
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Skattegraveren
Dansk samfund til indsamling af folkeminder
1886
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Skazanʹie, strasti i pokhvala svi͡atui͡u mucheniku Borisa i Gli͡eba
Osip Maksimovich Bodi͡anskiĭ
1870CHU
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Skazki russkikh inorodt︠s︡ev
V. N. Kharuzina
1898Russian
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Skylla und Charybdis in der Literatur und Kunst der Griechen und Römer
Otto Waser
1894German
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Skythika, oder etymologische und kritische Bemerkungen ©ơber alte Bergreligion und sp©Þteren Fetischismus, mit besonderer Ber©ơcksichtigung der slavischen V©œlker- und G©œtter-Namen ...
Georg Liebusch
1833German
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Skýringar á vísum í Gísla sögu Surssonar
Jón Þorkelsson
1873Icelandic
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Slavianskīi︠a︡ skazanīi︠a︡ o Solomoni︠e︡ i Kitovrasi︠e︡ i Zapadnyi︠a︡ legendy o ..
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Veselovskīĭ
1872Russian
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Slovanské bájesloví v základních jeho ástkách
Jan Václav Rozum
1857Czech
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Slovenské bájeslovie
Viliam Paulíny-Tóth
1876Czech