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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La Mythologie et les fables expliquées par l'histoire. 4
Antoine Banier
1739French
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La Mythologie et les fables expliquées par l'histoire. 5
Antoine Banier
1739French
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La Mythologie et les fables expliquées par l'histoire. 6
Antoine Banier
1740French
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La Mythologie et les fables expliquées par l'histoire. 7
Antoine Banier
1740French
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La Mythologie et les fables expliquées par l'histoire. 8
Antoine Banier
1740French
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La Philosophie de l'Histoire
Voltaire
1765French
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La Rappresentazione di Santa Uliva, riprodotta sulle antiche stampe.
1863Italian
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La Vicissitudine
Loys Le Roy
1585NOT
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La chevalerie française
Amable Tastu
1821NOT
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La danse macabre
Paul Lacroix
1832NOT
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La franche-maçonnerie rendue à sa veritable origine, ou l'antiquité de la franche-maçonnerie prouvée par l'explication des mysteres anciens et modernens
Alexandre Lenoir
1814NOT
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La morte di Achille
1827Italian
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La mythologie comparée avec l'histoire. 1
Maurice Elisabeth de Lavergne de Tressan
1804French
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La mythologie comparée avec l'histoire. 2
Maurice Elisabeth de Lavergne de Tressan
1804French
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La religion du souverain
1792French
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La superstition du temps, reconnuë aux talismans, figures astrales, & statuës fatales . Contre un livre anonyme intitulé "Les talismans justifiez". Avec la poudre de sympathie soupçonnée de magie. Par le R. P. F. François Placet
François Placet
1668French
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La vida y fabulas del Esopo
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1607Spanish
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La vie contemplative, ascetique et monastique chez les Indous et chez les peuples Bouddhistes
Johann J Bochinger
1831French
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La vie et les fables d'Esope
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1547French
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Lafontaine, seine Fabeln und ihre Gegner
Wilhelm Kulpe
1880German
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Land und Leute Württembergs. 1
Johann P Glökler
1858German
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Land und Leute Württembergs. 2
Johann P Glökler
1861German
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Land und Leute Württembergs. 3
Johann P Glökler
1863German
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Land und Leute in Nord-Euböa
Geōrgios Drosinēs
1884Greek