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
- Read free
Fabulae 297
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1660NOT
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Fabulae Aesopeae
ca. 1./2. Jh Babrius
1859NOT
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Fabulae Aesopi
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1515Latin
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Fabulae Aesopiae
ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus
1828Latin
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Fabulae Aesopiae Phaedri Augusti Caesaris Liberti fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque
ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus
1787NOT
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Fabulae Aesopicae
François-Joseph Terrasse Desbillons
1800German
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Fabulae Aesopicae Graecae
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1820NOT
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Fabulae Aesopicae plures quingentis et aliae quaedam narrationes
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1564Latin
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Fabulae Aesopicae plures quingentis et aliae quaedam narrationes c. historia vitae fortunaeque Aesopi
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1589Latin
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Fabulae Centum
Gabriello Faerno
1793NOT
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Fabulae Francisci Philelphi
Francesco Filelfo
1480Latin
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Fabulae Locmani sapientis ex arabico sermone latinis versib
Luqmān
1780Latin
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Fabulae Selectae Fontanii
Jean de La Fontaine
1775Latin
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Fabulae centum, ex antiquis auctoribus delectae et a Gabriele Faerno,... carminibus explicatae
Gabriele Faerno
1564Latin
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Fabulae dramaticae
Charles Porée
1749NOT
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Fabulae et fabularum fragmenta
ca. 1./2. Jh Babrius
1835Latin
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Fabulae jambicae 123 jussu
ca. 1./2. Jh Babrius
1844NOT
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Fabulae nuper publicatae in Italia
ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus
1822German
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Fabulae quarum interpretes hi sunt
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1576Latin
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Fabulae selectae
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1655NOT
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Fabulae selectiores
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1658NOT
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Fabulae superstites XX
Titus Maccius Plautus
1604NOT
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Fabulae triginta
ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus
1812NOT
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Fabularu[m] que hoc libro continentur interpretes atq[ue] authores sunt hi, Guilielmus Goudanus, Hadrianus Barlandus, Erasmus Roterodamus
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1517Latin