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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Fabeln und Erzählungen. [1]
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
1746German
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Fabeln und Gedichte nebst fünfundfünfzig Sprüchen
Wilhelm Hey
1890German
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Fabeln und Sinngedichte. 1
Johann Ferdinand Schlez
1787German
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Fabeln und poetische Erzählungen in Ausw. hrsg. von H. Hauff. 1
Gottlieb Conrad Pfeffel
1861German
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Fabeln und poetische Erzählungen in Ausw. hrsg. von H. Hauff. 2
Gottlieb Conrad Pfeffel
1861German
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Fabeln und poetische Erzählungen. 1
Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
1840German
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Fabeln und poetische Erzählungen. 1, Fabeln und poetische Erzählungen
Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
1861German
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Fabeln und poetische Erzählungen. 2
Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
1840German
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Fabeln vom Verfasser des Glockenbuben
J. Alois Meier
1846NOT
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Fabeln von Jean de Lafontaine
Jean de La Fontaine
1885NOT
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Fables & Contes De Gellert
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
1777French
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Fables D'Ésope
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1650French
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Fables De Phedre Affranchi D'Auguste
ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus
1771French
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Fables Et Contes de Mr. Gellert
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
1750French
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Fabs de Lokman "sapik" in püks bals
Luqmān
1889NOT
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Fabulae
ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus
1753NOT
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Fabulae
Francesco Filelfo
1480Latin
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Fabulae
Johannes Antracinus, Lorenzo Astemio, Domicus Palladius, Petrus Paulus Phantinus
1399Latin
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Fabulae
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1476Latin
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Fabulae
ca. 4./5. Jh Avianus
1494Latin
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Fabulae , narrationes et aliae amplificationes Caroli Lebeau
Charles Le Beau
1782Latin
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Fabulae , quaew de caede Agamemnonis et vindicta Orestis feruntur apud Graecorum poetas, quomodo inter se differant
Ernst Kahle
1880German
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Fabulae , quarum interpretes hi sunt: Guilelmus Goudanus
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1553Latin
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Fabulae , quarum interpretes sunt Guil. Goudanus
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1559Latin