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
Witchcraft and its Transformations c.1650–c.1750
Ian Bostridge
1997
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Zeitschrift für Volkskunde
Verband Deutscher Vereine für Volkskunde
1891German
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Zivot svaté Kateriny
Josef Pecirka
1860Czech
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Zur Geographie und Geschichte von Alt-Italien
Georg Friedrich Grotefend
1840German
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Zur kenntniss Hawaii's
Adolf Bastian
1883German
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Zwei Isländer-Geschichten
Andreas Heusler
1897German
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[Sefer hekhalot]
1300Hebrew
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dipe à Colone
Sophocles
1843French
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Æventyrets dyreverden
Ingvor Bondesen
1887Danish
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Élie de Saint Gille
Gaston Raynaud
1879French
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Élite des monuments céramographiques
Charles Lenormant
1844French
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Étude linguistique sur une version de la légende de Théophile
Herman Andersson
1889French
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Étude sur la flexion dans le voyage de S. Brandan: oième anglo-normand du XIIe suècle
Knud Olai Brekke
1884French
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Úvahy o slovenských povestiach
Pavol Dobšinský
1871Slovak
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Über Metrik und Poetik der altenglischen Dichtung The Owl and the Nightingale
Joseph Börsch
1883German
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Über die Entstehung der Götterideale der griechischen Kunst
Reinhard Kekulé
1877German
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Über die Kristni-saga: Kritische Beiträge zur altnordischen Literaturgeschichte
Oskar Brenner
1878German
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Črtice iz duševnega žitka štaj. Slovencev
Josip Pojek, Josip Pajek
1884Czech
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Ėkskursy vʺ oblastʹ russkago narodnago ėposa
Vsevolod Fedorovich Miller
1892Russian
Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology
Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs, Ágnes Birtalan, Monika Kropej, Anna Kuznetsova, Jonas Liliequist, Benedek Láng, Soili-Maria Olli, Vesna Petreska, Anna Plotnikova, L’upcho S Risteski, Ilana Rosen, Karen P Smith, Éva Szacsvay, György E Szőnyi, Erzsébet Tatai, Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, Wanda Wyporska, Zmago Šmitek
2006
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The Penguin Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poë, Will Self
2021
Compendium of the occult
Liz Williams
2025
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A Critical and Chronological History Of The Rise, Progress, Declension, and Rivival Of Knowledge, Chiefly Y Religious
Henry Winder
1756
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A New Cyropaedia; Or The Travels Of Cyrus
Andrew Michael Ramsay
1727