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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Historische Winke über ächte und unächte Freymaurerey
Johann Kaspar Velthusen
1804German
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Historischer und philosophischer Überblick über die Religionsbegriffe ... kultivirter und roher Völker in der alten und neuen Zeit
Johann Gottlieb Lindemann
1820German
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Historiske Efterretninger til Kundskab om Mennesket i dets vilde og raa Tilstand. 1
Christian Bastholm
1803Dutch
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Historiske Efterretninger til Kundskab om Mennesket i dets vilde og raa Tilstand. 2
Christian Bastholm
1803Dutch
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Historiske Efterretninger til Kundskab om Mennesket i dets vilde og raa Tilstand. 3
Christian Bastholm
1803Dutch
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Historiske Efterretninger til Kundskab om Mennesket i dets vilde og raa Tilstand. 4
Christian Bastholm
1804Dutch
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Hochzeitgebräuche aller Nazionen der Welt
Louis de Gaya
1783German
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Hofbräuhaus Bibliothek
Ferdinand Fränkel
1892NOT
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Hofbräuhaus-Bibliothek
Fernandus Fränkl
1889NOT
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Holwells merkwürdige historische Nachrichten von Hindostan und Bengalen
John Z Holwell
1778German
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Hrn. B. H. Brockes, L. Com. Palat. Caes. und Rahts-Herrn der Stadt Hamburg, Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott
Barthold Heinrich Brockes
1737German
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Hrn. B. H. Brockes, Lt. Com. Palat. Caes. und Raths-Herrn der Stadt Hamburg, Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott
Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Christian Friedrich Weichmann
1732German
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Hugo's von Trimberg auserlesene Fabeln , Erzählungen und Schwänke
von Trimberg Hugo
1827German
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Hui! und Pfui! der Welt
a Sancta Clara Abraham
1836German
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Hundert Fabeln
August Gottlieb Meißner
1816German
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Hundert und ein Sabbat
Hermann Schiff
1842German
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Huy! und Pfuy! Der Welt
a Sancta Clara Abraham
1707German
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Hvad er Edda?
Knud Henneberg
1812Danish
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Hänsel und Gretel
Cara Fechner-Leyde, Ferdinand Hummel
1882German
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Höhere Vergeistigung der echt überlieferten Grundsymbole der Freymaurerei
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
1820NOT
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I. Abtheilung: Neuere deutsche Belletristik u. Jugendschriften, Literaturgeschichte, Fabeln, Märchen , Sagen, Sprichwörter, Volksbücher und Volksschriften, Lehr- und Wörterbücher der deutschen Sprache
Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariat in München
1872German
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I. Menapius. Roseae Crucis, Das ist Bedencken der Gesambten Societet, von dem verdeckten vnd vngenandten scribtore, F. G. Menapio, ob er pro Fratre zuhalten
Daniel Mögling
1619German
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IDEAM RELIGIONIS ORTHODOXAE SERENISSIMIS PRAEPOTENTISSIMIS HEROIBUS PRINCIPIBUS. EVANGELICAE RELIGIONIS, PROPUGNATOBRIBUS CHRISTIANISSIMIS. DOMININIS DOMINIS GUSTAVO ADOLPHO, D. G. SUEC. GOTH. VAND. REGI MAGNO PRINCIPI FINL: DUCI ESTHOAE, CAREL. DNO: INGRIAE. DIVINITUS EXCITATO VINDICI, PRESSAE GERMANIAE, VICTORIOSISSIMO JOHANNI GEORGIO, D. G. SAC. ROM. IMP. ELECTORI ET ARCHIMARS. SAX. IUL. CLI. MONT. DUCI. MARCH: MISN. BURG: MAGD. COM. MAR & DNO: RAV. RESTAURATORI PRESSAE BOHEM: & SILES. DESIDERATISSIMO. Dominis suis Clementiss: Humilimae Devotionis ergò, de victoriis hactenus Gratia Dei Gloriosè acquisitis, Congratulabundus, Exoptatissimosq; successus, Pio mentis applausu adprecatus, Humilimè Dicta, Litat, Consecrat
Jeremias Slovacius
1632German
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Iac. Raevardi Tribonianus sive de veris usucapionum differentiis adversus Tribonianum liber singularis
Jacobus Raevardus
1561NOT