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
D. Johann Salomo Semlers Zusätze zu der teutschen Uebersetzung von Fludds Schutzschrift für die Rosenkreuzer
Johann Salomo Semler
1785German
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D. Siegmund Jacob Baumgartens Geschichte der Religionspartheyen
Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten
1766German
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Damographia oder Gemsen-Beschreibung
Adam von Lebenwaldt
1693German
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Danica Historia
Grammaticus Saxo
1576Latin
- Read free
Danica historia libris XVI annis abhinc trecentis quinquaginta ... conscripta
Grammaticus Saxo
1576Latin
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Danorum Regu[m] herou[m]q[ue] Historię
Grammaticus Saxo
1514NOT
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Danorum historiae libri XVI
Grammaticus Saxo
1534NOT
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Darlegung des religiösen und religionsgeschichtlichen Charakters und Verhältnisses der Herren Gutzkow und Menzel
Georg Friedrich Daumer
1836German
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Das Bayern-Buch
Joseph Maria Mayer
1869German
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Das Blut der heiligen Martyrer
Jakob Leitner
1873German
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Das Buch der Jubiläen und sein Verhältniss zu den Midraschim
Bernhard Beer
1856German
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Das Buch für meine Kinder
Julius Sturm
1877German
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Das Buch von der Tugent und Weißheit
Erasmus Alberus
1557NOT
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Das Diadem oder: Die Ruinen von Engelhaus
Heinrich Cuno, Theodor Körner
1821German
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Das Eigene der Völkerschafften. 1
François Ignace d' Espiard
1754German
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Das Eigene der Völkerschafften. 2
François Ignace d' Espiard
1754German
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Das Entwickelungsgesetz des Zeitgeistes
W Löser
1844German
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Das Erzgebirge
Johannes Burgkhardt
1888German
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Das Familienwesen
Rudolf Heinrich Bernhard Bosse
1835German
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Das Frühlingskind
Louis Grosse, Marie Meißner
1885German
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Das Ganze aller geheimen Ordens-Verbindungen
August Siegfried von Goue
1805NOT
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Das Gnadenbild zu Maria Kulm oder: Die Kraft des Glaubens
Franz Franieck
1889Czech
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Das Johannisfest in der Freimaurerei
Georg Christian Gottlieb von Wedekind
1818NOT
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Das Kaisergebirge und seine Sagen
Paul Greussing
1890German