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

Aeneid
Publius Vergilius Maro
1839

African Myths and Legends
Kathleen Arnott
1962

African oral literature
Isidore Okpewho
1992

Afro-American folk lore
Abigail M. H. Christensen
1892
- Read free

All religions and religious ceremonies
1823
- Read free

Among the meadow people
Clara Dillingham Pierson
1897

Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
1827

An evening in Guanima
Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
1993

And Baby Makes Seven
Paula Vogel
2006

And The Winner Gets...Married! (Dynasties
Metsy Hingle
2002

Antigone
Jean Anouilh
1782

Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures
Bernard de Montfaucon
1721

Arde el monte de noche
Juan-Tomás Avila Laurel, José Manuel Pedrosa, Jethro Soutar
2009

Around the hearth
Kynpham Singh Nongkynrih
2007

Autobiography, and other memorials of Mrs. Gilbert (formerly Ann Taylor) Edited by Josiah Gilbert
Alen MacWeeney, Richard Conniff
1878

Barrayar
Lois McMaster Bujold
1991

Be Careful What You Wish For
Jeffrey Archer
2014

Beneath the Attic
V.C. Andrews
2019

Best Loved Folktales of the World
Joanna Cole, Mary Pope Osborne
1982

Black Swan, White Raven
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, Anne Bishop, Michael Blumlein, Michael Cadnum, Marianne Fraulo
1997

Books of Blood Volume One
Clive Barker
1985

Books of blood volume II
Clive Barker
1986

Brothers in Arms
Lois McMaster Bujold
1989

Bunny
Mona Awad
2019