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
Mythologie dramatique de Lucien , traduite en français et accompagnée du texte grec et d'une version latine, par le C. Gail
Lucien de Samosate
1798French
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Mythologie grecque et romaine
A Boime-Simon
1834NOT
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Mythologie ou l'histoire des dieux, des demi-dieux, et des plus illustres héros de L'antiquité Payenne
N. Dupuy La Chapelle
1731French
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Mythologisches Taschenbuch oder Darstellung und Schilderung der Mythen, religiösen Ideen und Gebräuche aller Völker. 1
Friedrich Majer
1811German
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Mythologisches Taschenbuch oder Darstellung und Schilderung der Mythen, religiösen Ideen und Gebräuche aller Völker. 2
Friedrich Majer
1813German
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Mythologus oder gesammelte Abhandlungen über die Sagen des Alterthums. 1
Philipp Buttmann
1828German
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Mythologus oder gesammelte Abhandlungen über die Sagen des Alterthums. 2
Philipp Buttmann
1829German
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Mythoterpe
Mathilde Kaufmann
1858German
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Mythus, Sage, Märchen
Heinrich Wolf
1896German
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Mythōn Aisōpeiōn synagōgē
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1769Ancient Greek
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Mädchen und Weiber
Friedrich Spach
1791German
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Mährchen und Sagen der Luxemburger Landes
Nikolaus Steffen
1853NOT
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Märchen
Wilhelm Hauff
1894German
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Märchen
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
1843German
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Märchen
Adolf Klietsch
1898German
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Märchen
Amélie Linz
1895NOT
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Märchen
F. v Woringen
1854NOT
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Märchen
Hans Christian Andersen
1851NOT
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Märchen
Charles Perrault
1872German
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Märchen -Reigen
Amélie Linz
1896NOT
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Märchen -Schatz
Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff
1845German
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Märchen aus Irlands Gauen
William Butler Yeats
1894NOT
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Märchen aus Kamerun
Njo Dibone
1889German
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Märchen aus Kärnten
Franz Franzisci
1884NOT