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.
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- 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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Schatten und Licht
Johann Pezzl
1786German
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Schauspiele. Erstes Bändchen
August Platen
1824German
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Schediasmatis philologico-critici dissertationis IV quae poeticam evolvit, pars I, in qua de scriptoribus, dignitate & antiquitate eius, nec non de mythologia , paucis agitur
Zacharias Götze
1723NOT
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Schellings Vorlesungen über Philosophie der Mythologie (unvollständig, der Schluss von Vorlesung 36 an [bis 42] fehlt) - BSB Cgm 6284
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
1830German
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Schellings Vorlesungen über Philosophie der Mythologie im S. S. 1828 - BSB Cgm 6292
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
1828German
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Schellings Vorlesungen über Philosophie der Offenbarung - BSB Cgm 6286
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
1833German
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Schema Disquisitionis Iuridico-Politicae De Iure Principis Circa Liberos Murarios Germanice (Frey-Mäurer) Dictos
D. C Str.
1742Latin
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Schich Sadi Persisches Rosenthal
Saʿdī
1775German
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Schiffer- Sagen . 1
Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg
1837German
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Schiffer- Sagen . 2
Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg
1837German
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Schild- Sagen
Franz von Gaudy
1834German
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Schlern-Sagen und Märchen
Martinus Meyer
1891German
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Schlesischer Sagen -, Historien- und Legendenschatz
John Retcliffe
1840German
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Schleswig-Holstein
Heinrich Smidt
1847German
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Schloss Engelhaus, seine Ruinen und Legenden
Des Fayères
1879German
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Schlüssel zur Ewe-Sprache
J. B Schlegel
1857German
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Schreiben an das Publicum, oder Vertheidigung des Freymaurerordens, wider das Edict des Magistrats zu Danzig, Welches den 3. Oct. 1763. kund gemacht und in verschiedene Zeitungen ist eingerückt worden
Friedrich von Bran
1764German
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Schreiben an die Frau ... über den Ursprung der Leibeigenschaft
Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch
1796German
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Schriften, denen ein Beywort nach Belieben kann gegeben werden
Karl Maximilian Wilhelm Petermann
1760German
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Schutz-Schrifft für dem Orden der Frey-Mäurer
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1743German
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Schweizerische Lieder und Sagen
Josef Anton Henne
1824German
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Schwäbische Sagen -Chronik
Alexander Patuzzi
1844German
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Schwäbische Volksmärchen
Ludwig Auer
1885German
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Schwänke des Hebel'schen Rheinländischen Hausfreundes
Johann Peter Hebel
1839German