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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Kindergärtlein
Adam Langer
1887German
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Kitab-ı Hümâyûnnâme - BSB Cod.turc. 192
Kāšifī, Ḥusain Wāʿiẓ, -1504
1563
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Kitāb Laṭāʾif aḫbār al-uwal fī man taṣarrafa fī Miṣr min arbāb ad-duwal - BSB Cod.arab. 396
Isḥāqī, Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Muʿṭī al-, -1649
1120Arabic
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Kleine Slavonische Mythologie
Michail Popov
1793German
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Klimatographie des Königreichs Sachsen
Paul Schreiber
1893NOT
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Korea
H. G Arnous
1893German
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Kosegarten's Dichtungen
Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten
1812German
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Kreta
Karl Hoeck
1823Greek
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Kreta-Biene oder kretische Volkslieder, Sagen , Liebes-, Denk- und Sittensprüche
Elpis Melena
1874German
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Kritik der Bildung in unserer Zeit
Theodor Rottels
1843NOT
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Kritische Versuche, die ältere böhmische Geschichte von spätern Erdichtungen zu reinigen
Josef Dobrovský
1803German
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Kronik der Heiligen
C Pistorius
1787German
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Kronik der Maurerey
Joseph von Palatin
1785German
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Krystalle
C Wardow
1861German
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Kultur und Barbarey, oder Andeutungen aus und zu der Geschichte der Menschheit
Johann G Reinwald
1828NOT
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Kummer's Fabel-Buch
Johann Jeremias Kummer
1862German
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Kurze Anreden bei der Einsegnung christlicher Brautleute
Nikolaus Lenz
1833NOT
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Kurze Geschichte des Buchs: Sarsena
Carl Friedrich Kunz
1838German
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Kurze Mythologie
Heinrich Braun
1762German
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Kurzer Unterricht von der Mythologie oder Götterlehr der alten heidnischen Dichter
Philipp Joseph Holl
1775NOT
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Kurzgefasstes Handbuch des Wissenswürdigsten aus der Mythologie und Archäologie des klassischen Alterthums
Karl Kärcher
1825German
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Kurzgefaßte Geschichte und gerettete Ehre des erlauchten Freymaurer-Ordens
Siegismund Justus Ehrhardt
1754German
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König Attila und seine Zeit
Amédée Thierry
1855German
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König Drosselbart
A Edelmann, Oskar Moericke
1885German