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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Die zwo Schwestern P*** und W*** oder neu entdecktes Freymaurer- und Revolutionssystem
Leopold Alois Hoffmann
1796German
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Die Überreste vorweltlicher Riesenthiere in Beziehung zu Ostasiatischen Sagen und Chinesischen Schriften
Ignaz von Olfers
1840NOT
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Dieweil yetz So grosse spaltung inn allen Christen ist. Waiß ich dir zu der Seligkayt kain weg der dir gwiser ist Dann volg disem büchlen fleissig vn[d] trewlich nach. Vnd frag sonst gar niemandts mer nach. Laß ain yegklichen singen oder sagen. Du must dein burde selbst tragen
Robert Barnes
1549German
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Dieweyl yetz so grosse spaltung in allen Christen ist Waysz ich dir zu der seligkait kai[n] weg der dir gwisser ist Dan[n] volg disem büchlein fleyssig vnd trewlich nach Vnnd frag sonst gar niemandts mehr nach Lasz ein yeglichen singen oder singen oder sagen Du must dein bürde selbst tragen Laus deo
Robert Barnes
1533German
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Difesa del Papa
Johann Georg Gebhard
1785NOT
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Diodori Siculi Bibliothecae Historicae Libri XVII
Siculus Diodorus
1559Latin
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Diodori Siculi Bibliothecae historicae
Siculus Diodorus
1548Latin
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Diodori Siculi Bibliothecae historicae libri XV
Siculus Diodorus
1559Latin
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Diodorus Siculus
Siculus Diodorus
1508Latin
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Diodōru Sikeliōtu Historiōn Biblia Tina ta heuriskomena
Siculus Diodorus
1539Ancient Greek
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Discovrs De La Religion Des Anciens Romains
Guillaume Du Choul
1672French
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Discussionum peripateticarum libri 13
Francesco Patrizi
1572NOT
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Disquisitiones Analyticae Maxime Ad Calculum Integralem Et Doctrinam Serierum Pertinentes. 1,2
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
1797Latin
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Dissertatio Historico Critica De Fato Mvhammedano
Johann Christian Krüger
1759Latin
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Dissertatio Inauguralis Juridica Qua Leges Succedendi Consuetas Ad Juris Justitiaeque Normam Examinatas
Johann Samuel Friedrich von Böhmer
1749Latin
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Dissertatio Ivridica De Ivre Avocandi Vasallos Exteris Militantes, Speciatim Ordinibvs Imperii VI Territorii Vindicato
Justus Georg Chladni
1731Latin
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Dissertatio Succincta Theorico-Practica, de Lege Commissoria
Gottfried von Jena
1663Latin
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Dissertatio de dea Hertha
Johann Michael Rabus
1842NOT
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Dissertation sur Elie et Enoch
Nicolas Antoine Boulanger
1760NOT
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Dissertations sur la mythologie françoise
Jean-Baptiste Bullet
1771NOT
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Dobrowsky's Slavin
Josef Dobrovský
1834German
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Doctor Goldhärchen und Die Prinzessin von China
C Kraemer, Carl Riedl
1871German
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Doctrine nouvelle sur la reproduction de l'homme, suivie du Tableau des variétés de l'espèce humaine
Jean Michel Nicolas Tinchant
1822French
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Dom- Sagen
Johann Nepomuk Vogl
1845German