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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De Ionis fabulae Euripideae partibus choricis commentatio
Otto Hense
1876Latin
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De Iudaeorum re scenica commentatio
Johann Gottfried Eichhorn
1811Latin
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De Iure Consulto Sine Lege Loquente
Johann Christoph Agricola, Jacob Friedrich Ludovici
1700Latin
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De La Maçonneeie Adonhiramite
Louis Guillemain de Saint-Victor
1787French
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De La Passion Du Jeu, Depuis Les Temps Anciens Jusqu'a Nos Jours. 1
Jean Dusaulx
1779French
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De La Passion Du Jeu, Depuis Les Temps Anciens Jusqu'a Nos Jours. 2
Jean Dusaulx
1779French
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De Lamiis, Das ist: Von Teuffelsgespenst, zauberern vnd gifftbereytern kurtzer doch grundtlicher Bericht was für vnterscheidt vnter den hexen vnd vnholden vnd den Gifftbereytern im Straffen zuhalten
Johannes Wier
1586German
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De Paris, des moeurs, de la littérature et de la philosophie
Jacques Barthélemy Salgues
1813French
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De Pausaniae fide et auctoritate in historia, mythologia artibusque Graecorum tradendis praestita
Ferdinand Sophus Chr König
1832Latin
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De Rebvs Ad Scholam Civicam Qvae Lipsiae Ad D. Nicolai Est, Pertinentibvs Expositio
Johann Jacob Reiske
1759Latin
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De Religione Gentilium, errorumque apud eos causis
Edward Herbert Herbert of Cherbury
1663Latin
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De Rhesi fabulae aetate et forma
Wilhelm Nöldeke
1877Latin
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De Simvlacro Reip. Sive De Imaginibvs Politicae Et Oeconomicae Virtvtis. Henrici Farnesii Ebvronis I.C. Et artis Oratoriae Intrepraetis Regij. Panegyrici Lib. IIII. absoluti
Enrico Farnese
1593Latin
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De Swienegel als Wettrenner
Theodor von Kobbe
1853German
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De Turcarum moribus epitome
Bartolomej Georgijević
1598Latin
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De Walthario Aquitano Latino illo decimi saeculi carmine et de natura variaque spicie fabulae in hoc poemate nobis exhibitae
G. P Falckenheiner
1846NOT
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De argumento atque consilio Daetalensium fabulae Aristophaneae
Fredr. Jm Fähraeus
1886NOT
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De compositione metrica Promethei fabulae Aeschyleae capita IV
Theodor Heidler
1884German
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De coronis et tonsuris paganorum ... libri tres
Prosper Stellart
1625NOT
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De decem praeceptis 'Audi Israel ... sunt autem septem' - BSB Clm 26781
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus, v384-v322 Aristoteles, ca. 4./5. Jh Avianus, de Cessolis Jacobus, ca. 4./5. Jh Romulus
1441Latin
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De fabulae Prometheae in arte litterisque usu
Theodor Konitzer
1885Latin
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De festis Christianorum tractatus
Rodolphus Hospinianus
1674NOT
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De festis Iudaeorum et Ethnicorum
Rodolphus Hospinianus
1675NOT
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De humanarum divinarumque rerum enarrationibus libri quindecim
Mercurius Vipera
1518NOT