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 idolatria liber
Moses Maimonides
1668Hebrew
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De interpolatione Hippolyti Fabulae Euripideae
Heinrich Gloel
1879NOT
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De interpolatione fabulae Sophocleae quae inscribitur Aiax
Edmund Reichard
1880NOT
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De l'Esprit des Religions
Nicolas de Bonneville
1791French
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De l'esprit des Religions
Alexis Dumesnil
1825French
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De l'influence du Christianisme sur la condition des femmes
Henri Grégoire
1821French
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De l'influence du principe religieux sur l'homme et sur la société
Jean A Dréolle
1838French
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De l'origine de la crémation
John Jamieson
1821NOT
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De la nature des sciences morales
T. M Curel
1829NOT
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De la noblesse de la peau
Henri Grégoire
1826French
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De la réligion
Benjamin Constant
1824French
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De locis quibusdam Acharnensium
Friedrich Lotz
1866Latin
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De lumbricis epistola, nunc primum Graece & Latine edita
Trallianus Alexander
1570Latin
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De moribus et ritibus gentium libri III
Alessandro Sardi
1557NOT
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De nonnullis locis Ionis fabulae Euripideae
August Karl Wiskemann
1872Latin
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De poculo soterio moraliter bono atque licito
Christian Jacob Koitzsch, Gottlob Andreas Meyer
1694Latin
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De praeclara divini christianique principatus maiestate
Mercurius Vipera
1520NOT
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De praeclara perillustresque dictis ac gestis libri octo
Mercurius Vipera
1519NOT
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De religione Arabum anteislamitica
Frédéric Guillaume Bergmann
1834Latin
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De sapientia veterum liber
Francis Bacon
1617NOT
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De septem adversus Thebas fabulae Aeschyleae episodio altero
Richard Bethge
1890Latin
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De temporum ratione, quae Trachiniis fabulae Sophocleae subest, et de eiusdem fabulae parodi contextu disputatur
Eugen Eckardt
1889NOT
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De varia historia libri 14
Claudius Aelianus
1567NOT
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De varia temporum in iure civili observatione ... libellus
Romaios Eustathios
1561Ancient Greek