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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Herrn Hardens Fabeln
Franz Mehring
1899NOT
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Herrn Houdart de La Motte Neue Fabeln , aus dem Frantzösischen in deutsche Versse übersetzt [von C. G. Glafey]
Antoine de La Motte
1736German
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Herrn Johann Adolf Schlegels Fabeln und Erzählungen
Johann Adolf Schlegel
1769German
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Herrn M. G. Lichtwers ... Auserlesene verbesserte Fabeln und Erzählungen
Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer
1761German
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Herrn M. G. Lichtwers, Königl. Preußischen Hof- und Regierungsraths im Fürstenthume Halberstadt, auserlesene verbesserte Fabeln und Erzählungen
Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer
1761German
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Herrn von Fenelon weiland Erz-Bischofs und Herzogs zu Cambray Gespräche Der Todten Alter und neuer Zeiten
François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon
1745German
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Herrn von Rochefort's Nachricht von einer griechischen Handschrift, welche sich auf der ehemaligen königl. Bibliothek zu Paris befand und Aesopische Fabeln enthält
Guillaume Dubois de Rochefort
1796Ancient Greek
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Het Buddhisme en zijn stichter
J. H Halbertsma
1843Dutch
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Het Geopende en Wederleyde Muhammedisdom Of Turckdom
Simon Oomius
1663Dutch
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Het Klaverblad
Prudens van Duyse
1848Dutch
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Hexengeschichten
Ludwig Bechstein
1854German
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Hieronymi Morlini novellae, fabulae , comoedia
Girolamo Morlini
1855NOT
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Hildesheimer Rosen
Friedrich Kassebeer
1897German
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Himmelsschlüssel
Svatopluk Čech
1892NOT
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Histoire De L'Homme, Consideré dans ses Moeurs, dans ses Usages, & dans sa Vie provée. 1, Premiere Époque
Peter Villaume
1779French
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Histoire De L'Homme, Consideré dans ses Moeurs, dans ses Usages, & dans sa Vie provée. 2, Seconde Époque
Peter Villaume
1779French
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Histoire De L'Homme, Consideré dans ses Moeurs, dans ses Usages, & dans sa Vie provée. 3, Suite De La Seconde Époque
Peter Villaume
1779French
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Histoire Des Différens Peuples Du Monde
André Guillaume Contant d'Orville
1772French
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Histoire Des Femmes
André Samuel Michel Cantwell
1791French
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Histoire Philosophique De La Religion. 1
Claude Yvon
1779French
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Histoire Philosophique De La Religion. 2
Claude Yvon
1779French
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Histoire de Dannemarc. 2, Introduction a l'histoire de Dannemarc, seconde partie; contenant les monumens de la mythologie & de la poésie des anciens peuples du Nord
Paul Henri Mallet
1763French
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Histoire de la famille et de son influence sur les moeurs, dans les sociétés antiques ... et modernes
Camille Leynadier
1844NOT
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Histoire des sectes religieuses
Henri Grégoire
1814French