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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Nordische Mythologie
Carl E Hachmeister
1832NOT
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Nordische Reisen und Forschungen. 4, Ethnologische Vorlesungen über die altaischen Völker
Matthias Alexander Castrén
1857German
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Nordische Sagen
C Rußwurm
1842German
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Noreja
Simon Martin Mayer
1837German
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Notice sur le Yamântaga, Idole rare du Museum ... de Moscou
Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim
1828French
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Nouveau dictionnaire historique, géographique, biographique et mythologique
1885French
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Nouvel ABC Allemands et Français ou premieres elements des deux langues à la postée de l'age tendre
Dominique Joseph Mozin
1834NOT
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Nouvelle collection des mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France, depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe
Joseph Fr Michaud, Jean Joseph François Poujoulat
1837French
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Novae epistolae mirâ arte, raráque, facundiâ ad pontentissimos ... principes ... perscriptae
Tilemann Mylius
1613NOT
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Novella della figlia del re di Dacia
1866Italian
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Novelle per la gioventù e per gli adulti di Giorgio Ebers
Georg Ebers
1894NOT
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Novellen
Henrik Steffens
1837German
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Novissimae novissimarum Saturni, Jovis, Martis et Veneris fabulae
Angelo Felice Capello
1733NOT
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Noviter detectae fabulae triginta
ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus
1812NOT
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Novus Apparatus Virgilii Poeticus
Laurent Le Brun
1793Latin
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Numismatisches Legenden -Lexicon des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. 1, Alphabetisch-Chronologische Tabellen der Münzherren und Verzeichniss der auf Münzen vorkommenden Heiligen
Wilhelm Rentzmann
1865German
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Numismatisches Legenden -Lexicon des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. 2, Ergänzungen der auf Münzen vorkommenden Titel-Abbreviaturen und Verzeichniss der den Münzen aufgeprägten Länder- und Städtenamen
Wilhelm Rentzmann
1866German
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Numismatisches Legenden -Lexicon des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. 3, Nachtrag zum numismatischen Legenden -Lexicon des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit
Wilhelm Rentzmann
1878German
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Numotheca numismatica latomorum. 1
Ernst Zacharias
1840German
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Numotheca numismatica latomorum. 2
Ernst Zacharias
1841German
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Numotheca numismatica latomorum. 3
Ernst Zacharias
1842German
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Numotheca numismatica latomorum. 4
Ernst Zacharias
1842German
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Numotheca numismatica latomorum. 5
Ernst Zacharias
1843German
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Numotheca numismatica latomorum. 6
Ernst Zacharias
1843German