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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Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie . 6, Sixième partie
Charles Albert Demoustier
1812NOT
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Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie . 7, Septième partie
Charles Albert Demoustier
1812French
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Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie ; suivies des Consolations. T. 1
Charles-Albert Demoustier
1835French
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Lettres à Émilie, sur la mythologie . 5
Charles Albert Demoustier
1801French
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Lettres à Émilie, sur la mythologie . 6
Charles Albert Demoustier
1801French
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Lettré sur l'utilité des musées ethnographiques et sur l'importance de leur création dans les états européens qui possèdent des colonies, ou qui entretiennent des relations commerciales avec les autres parties du monde, à M. Edme-François Jomard
Philipp Franz von Siebold
1843French
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Letzte Novellen von F. W. Hackländer
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
1879NOT
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Leuchtkäferchen
Franz Isidor Proschko
1849NOT
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Lezte Stunden eines Maurers
Friedrich Henning
1794German
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Li livres dou tresor
Brunetto Latini
1863French
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Liande
Julius Schanz
1855NOT
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Libellvs Palaephati Graeci Avthoris quo aliquot ueteres fabulae , unde tractae sint narratur, studiosis hominibus apprime utilis
ca. v4. Jh Palaephatus
1514Latin
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Liber Iohannis de Sacro Busto, de Sphaera
de Sacrobosco Johannes
1531Latin
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Liberté immédiate et absolue, ou esclavage
George W Alexander, John Scoble
1844French
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Libitina seu de Funeribus
François Pomey
1659NOT
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Lichtwer's Fabeln
Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer
1850German
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Lichtwerhr's Fabeln
Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer
1825German
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Lichtwers Fabeln
Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer
1842German
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Lied und Märe
Adolf Thimme
1896German
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Lieder
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
1758NOT
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Lieder und Chöre aus: Der Goldschmied von Ulm
Heinrich Marschner, Salomon Hermann von Mosenthal
1856German
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Lieder und Sagen
Theodor Mörtl
1846German
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Lieder, Fabeln und Romanzen
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
1758German
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Limburgsche Legenden , Sagen, Sprookjes en Volksverhalen, verzameld en uitgegeven door H. Welters
H Welters
1875Dutch