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
- Read free
Tragedye Eschylosa
Aeschylus
1873Polish
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Tragoediae
Sophocles
1669Ancient Greek
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Tragödien
Aeschylus
1822German
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Traité de l'athéisme et de la superstition
Joannes Franciscus ( Buddeus
1740French
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Transformationum congeries
Antoninus Liberalis
1568Ancient Greek
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Trattato del molto R.P. Georgio Scherer, theologo della Compagnia di Iesv & predicatore del ser.mo arciduca Ernesto d'Austria, &c
Georg Scherer
1596Italian
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Troilus Alberti Stadensis, primum ex unico Guelferbytano codice
Albertus Stadensis, Albertus, Hildebertus
1875Latin
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Tóruiġeaċt Ḋiarmuda agus Ġráinne =
Standish Hayes O'Grady
1880Irish
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Tʻoros Aghbar: Hayastani chambord
Garegin Sruandzteantsʻ
1879Armenian
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U ber den Gott Eros
Eduard Gerhard
1850German
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Ubbìe, ciancioni e ciarpe del secolo XIV
Girolamo Amati
1866Italian
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Ueber Personificationen, psychologischer Affekte in der spaeteren Vasenmalerei
Gustav Körte
1874German
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Ueber den religiösen Charakter des griechischen Mythos ..
Conrad Bursian
1875German
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Ueber die Idee der Gerechtigkeit in Aeschylus und Sophokles
Eduard Platner
1858German
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Ueber die echtheit des althochdeutschen schlummerliedes
Josef Virgil Grohmann
1861German
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Ueber die verfasser einiger neuangelsächsischer schriften ..
Eugen Einenkel
1881German
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Ueber eine kretische Kolonie in Theben; die Göttin Europa und Kadmos den König
Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
1824German
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Un manuscrito tarasco del siglo XVI
Maturino Gilberti
1888CAI
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Undine
Albert Lortzing
1845German
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Une fête brésilienne célébrée à Rouen en 1550
Ferdinand Denis
1850French
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Unsere deutschen vorfahren
Georg Carl Seibert
1886German
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Untersuchungen über die Motive der Robin-Hood- Balladen
Rudolf Kiessmann
1895German
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Untersuchungen über vier versionen der mittelengl. Margaretenlegende ..
Ernst Krahl
1889German
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Untersuchungen über das Gedicht von St. Oswold
Anton Erzardi
1876German