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
- Read free
Maurer-Gedichte
Karl Gottlieb Prätzel
1829German
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Maurerfreude
Martin Joseph Prandstätter
1786German
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Maurerische Mittheilungen
Joh. Bapt Krebs
1841German
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Maurerische Mittheilungen
J. M Gneiting
1831NOT
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Maurerische Reden und Gedichte
Georg C. W Gläser
1841German
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Maurerische Zeichnungen
Johann Baptist Krebs
1840NOT
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Maurerisches Handbuch, oder Angabe aller Gebräuche in der französischen Maurerei
Claude A Vuillaume
1821German
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Maximen und Gedanken über beyde Geschlechter
Friedrich Schulz
1798French
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Maßliebchen und Dieter
G Costa, A Heurung
1868German
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Maçonismo desmascarado
Joze L Monteiro
1823NOT
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Mehr Noten als Text oder die Deutsche Union der Zwey und Zwanziger eines neuen geheimen Ordens zum Besten der Menschheit
Johann Joachim Christoph Bode
1789German
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Meine Bekenntnisse über die Weiber
Christian Gottfried Flittner
1800German
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Meine Raritätenbude
Emile Mario Vacano
1892German
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Meine ohnmasgebliche Meynung über Dr. Starks Tonsur, seiner Gegner Scheermesser, Nikolais Illuminatenthum, und andere hieher gehörige Materien
Karl Heinrich Ludwig Jacobi
1788German
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Meinen Lieblingen
Emmy Giehrl
1895German
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Meissners Fabeln
August Gottlieb Meißner
1826German
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Meister Floh
E. T. A Hoffmann
1825German
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Meletē epi tu biu tōn neōterōn Hellēnōn. 1,1, Neoellēnikē mythologia
Nikolaos G Politēs
1871Greek
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Meletē epi tu biu tōn neōterōn Hellēnōn. 1,2, Neoellēnikē mythologia
Nikolaos G Politēs
1874Greek
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Memorabilia Alexandri Magni et aliorum virorum illustrium, Phaedri fabulae selectae
K Schmidt
1871NOT
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Memorabilia mundi
Matthias Quad
1601NOT
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Merkwürdigkeiten der Länder und Völker des österreichischen Kaiserstaates
Leopold Chimani
1814NOT
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Mes Leçons de Mythologie
Electrine Stuntz
1810French
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Metamorphosis, seu fabulae poeticae
Publius Ovidius Naso
1589NOT