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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Oratio de honoris studio Orientalium
Joannes H Pareau
1823NOT
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Orationes
Mercurius Vipera
1510NOT
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Orationes tres de lege agraria
Marcus Tullius Cicero
1861German
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Ordre des Francs-Maçons trahi et leur secret révélé
Gabriel Louis Calabre Pérau
1780French
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Orientalien
Herrmann Josef Landau
1862German
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Origine de tous les cultes ou religion universelle. 1
Charles François Dupuis
1794French
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Origine de tous les cultes ou religion universelle. 2
Charles François Dupuis
1794French
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Origine de tous les cultes ou religion universelle. 3
Charles François Dupuis
1794French
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Origine de tous les cultes ou religion universelle. 7
Charles François Dupuis
1794French
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Origine de tous les cultes ou religion universelle. [4], Planches De L'Origine De Tous Les Cultes Du Citoyen Dupuis
Charles François Dupuis
1794French
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Origine, progrès et décadence de l'idolatrie
Guillaume Alexandre de Méhégan
1757French
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Ostseemärchen
Hans Hoffmann
1897German
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Ovids sämtliche XV. Bücher der Verwandlungen
Publius Ovidius Naso
1767German
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P. Ouidij Nasonis deß aller Sinnreichsten Poeten Metamorphosis, Das ist von der wunderbarlicher Verenderung der Gestalten der Menschen, Thier, vnd anderer Creaturen. etc
Publius Ovidius Naso
1551German
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P. Ouidij Nasonis deß aller sinnreichsten Poeten Metamorphosis
Publius Ovidius Naso
1545German
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P. Ovidii Metamorphosis, Oder Wunderbarliche vnnd seltzame Beschreibung, von der Menschen, Thiern, vnd anderer Creaturen veränderung
Publius Ovidius Naso
1581German
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P. Ovidii Nasonis Tristivm lib. V. Et Epistolarvm Ex Ponto Lib. IV
Publius Ovidius Naso
1718German
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P. Terentii Afri Comoediae
Publius Terentius Afer
1727Latin
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P. Terentii Afri fabulae
Publius Terentius Afer
1567NOT
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Palaeographischer Nachweis der Unächtheit der Kölner Freimaurer -Urkunde vom J. 1535
Karl Gustav Schwetschke
1843French
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Palaestra Eloqventiae Ligatae
Jacob Masen
1682Latin
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Pamjatniki latyšskago narodnago tvorčestva
Ivan Ja Sprogis
1868Latvian
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Pandora
Christoph Martin Wieland
1821German
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Pantheon antiquorum
Vincenzo Cartari
1683Latin