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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Traité historique de la religion des Perses
Paul Foucher
1759French
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Traité sur l'origine de la Philosophie
Dutouchet
1800NOT
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Transformationum congeries
Liberalis Antoninus
1568NOT
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Trauerrede zum feyerlichen Andenken des weiland Hochwürdigsten Provincial-Grossmeisters der vereinigten Freymaurer-Logen in und ausser Deutschland
Werner Hans Friedrich Abrahamson
1777German
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Travestirte Fabeln des Phädrus
Karl Dieffenbach
1794German
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Tre Aeventyr
Georg Ebers
1890NOT
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Trier und seine Umgebungen in Sagen und Liedern
Philipp Laven
1851NOT
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Triller- Sagen
Ernst Koch
1884German
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Trophaea Mariana Sev De Victrice Misericordia Deiparae Patrocinantis Hominibvs
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg
1658Latin
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Träumereien an französischen Kaminen
Richard von Volkmann-Leander, Richard Volkmann-Leander
1874German
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Tunica Christi inconsutilis ex Psal. XXII, 19. et Joh. XIX, 23. explanata, cum confutatione fabulae de eius asservatione apud Treviros
Johann Georg Dorsche
1658NOT
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Turris Babel sive iudiciorum de fraternitate rosaceae crucis chaos
Johann Valentin Andreä
1619NOT
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Tyl Uilenspiegel
1898Dutch
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Ubiory w Polszcze
Łukasz Gołębiowski
1830Polish
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Udsigt over den Kaukasiske Mennes kesstammes aeldste Hjemsted og Udvandringer
Finnur Magnússon
1818NOT
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Ueber Freymaurer
Joseph Marius von Babo
1784German
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Ueber Freymaurerey
Johann August von Starck, Christian Jakob Wagenseil
1786German
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Ueber Gesetzgebung und Staatenwohl
Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel
1804German
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Ueber Offenbarung und Mythologie
Johann Christian August Grohmann, Friedrich Schleiermacher
1799German
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Ueber das Bild des Weltbaumeisters, Visvakarman, in einem der Felsentempel bey Illora in Indien
Othmar Frank
1835German
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Ueber das Ganze der Maurerey
August Siegfried von Goue
1787NOT
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Ueber den Geist der Religiosität aller Zeiten und Völker. 1
Johann Carl Fürchtegott Schlegel
1819German
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Ueber den Geist der Religiosität aller Zeiten und Völker. 2, Geist der Religiosität der Hindus, so wie überhaupt von der Seelenwanderung
Johann Carl Fürchtegott Schlegel
1819German
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Ueber den Sonnencultus der alten Völker und seine geistige Bedeutung
Friedrich Korn
1840NOT