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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Euripidis Fabulae . 1,1, Medea
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1899Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 1,2, Euripidis Alcestis
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1879Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 1,3, Euripidis Hecuba
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1883Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 1,4, Electra
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1898Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 1,5, Ion
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1898Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 1,6, Helena
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1898Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 1,7, Cyclops
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1898Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 2, Heraclidae; Hercules furens; Supplices; Hippolytus; Iphigenia Aulidensis; Iphigenie Taurica
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1867Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 2,1, Iphigenia Taurica
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1898Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 2,2, Supplices
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1898Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 2,3, Bacchae
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1898Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 2,4, Heraclidae
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1898Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 2,5, Hercules
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1899Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 2,6, Iphigenia Aulidensis
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1899Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae . 3, Ion; Cyclops; Medea; Orestes; Troades; Phoenissae; Anonymi rhesus
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1868Greek
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Euripidis Fabulae selectae
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1843Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Phoenissarum pars extrema inde a.v. 1582 utrum genuina sit necne quaeritur
Wilhelm Gebauer
1888Latin
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Euripidu Dramata. 1, Medea. Hippolytus. Alcestis. Heraclidae. Supplices. Troades. Rhesus. Ion. Helena. Scholia Vaticana in Troades et Rhesum
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1825Ancient Greek
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Euripidu Dramata. 2, Andromacha. Electra. Hercules furens. Bacchae. Hecuba. Phoenissae. Orestes. Iphigeniae. Cyclops
ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr Euripides
1825Ancient Greek
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Europäische Sittengeschichte vom Ursprunge volksthümlicher Gestaltungen bis auf unsere Zeit. 1, Bis zum Verfall des karolingischen Reiches
Wilhelm Wachsmuth
1831German
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Europäische Sittengeschichte vom Ursprunge volksthümlicher Gestaltungen bis auf unsere Zeit. 2, Vom Verfalle des karolingischen Frankenreichs bis zum Auftreten Gregorius VII
Wilhelm Wachsmuth
1833German
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Europäische Sittengeschichte vom Ursprunge volksthümlicher Gestaltungen bis auf unsere Zeit. 3,1, Das Zeitalter der Kirchenschwärmerei und der Herrschaft des Papstthums im Allgemeinen
Wilhelm Wachsmuth
1834German
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Europäische Sittengeschichte vom Ursprunge volksthümlicher Gestaltungen bis auf unsere Zeit. 3,2, Die europäischen Völker und Staaten besonders im Zeitalter der Kirchenschwärmerei und der Herrschaft des Papstthums
Wilhelm Wachsmuth
1835German
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Europäische Sittengeschichte vom Ursprunge volksthümlicher Gestaltungen bis auf unsere Zeit. 4, Das Zeitalter des Verfalls mittelalterlicher Zustände
Wilhelm Wachsmuth
1837German