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
Bonaventuras Betraktelser öfver Christi lefverne
Kardinal Johannes Bonaventura
1860Swedish
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Boner's Edelstein in hundert Fabeln
Ulrich Boner
1810German
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Boz sämmtliche Werke. 69, Der Verwünschte
Charles Dickens
1849German
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Bozener Märchen und Mären v. Hans Hoffmann
Hans Hoffmann
1896NOT
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Braminen und Rabbinen oder: Indien das Stammland der Hebräer und ihrer Fabeln
Joseph Seligmann Kohn
1836German
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Brasidas
Franz X Berger
1817NOT
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Braune Märchen
Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg
1850German
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Briefe Eines Biedermannes An Einen Biedermann Ueber Die Freymaeurer In Wien
Leopold Alois Hoffmann
1786German
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Briefe aus dem Himmel über die Freymaurerrevolution in Wien
Joseph Richter
1786German
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Briefe die Freimaurerei betreffend. 1,1, Über die Tempelherren
Paul Joachim Siegmund Vogel
1783German
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Briefe die Freimaurerei betreffend. 1,2, Über die Tempelherren
Paul Joachim Siegmund Vogel
1783German
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Briefe die Freimaurerei betreffend. 2, Briefe über die Mysterien
Paul Joachim Siegmund Vogel
1784German
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Briefe über Homer und Hesiodus, vorzüglich über die Theogonie
Friedrich Creuzer, Gottfried Hermann
1818German
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Briefwechsel der Frau von Y**. und der Baronesse von Z*
Karl Friedrich Kretschmann
1772German
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Bruchstücke zur Geschichte der deutschen Freymäurerey
Heinrich Sautier
1787German
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Buddijskaja Kosmologija
Osip M Kovalevskij
1837German
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Bulgarische Krone gefällig?
Julius Stettenheim
1888German
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Burg Greifenstein an der Donau und ihre Sagen
Emilie Edle von Bachmayr
1860NOT
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Böhmische Sagen
Clemens von Weyhrother
1865German
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Bücherblätter
Ign Schwarz
1849NOT
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C. F. Gellert's sämmtliche Fabeln und Erzählungen
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
1810German
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C. F. Gellerts Fabeln und Erzählungen
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
1800German
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C. F. Gellerts sämmtliche Fabeln und Erzählungen
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
1820German
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C. F. Gellerts sämmtliche Schriften. 1, Fabeln und Erzählungen
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
1774German