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

Dictionnaire des symboles
Jean Chevalier, Alain Gheerbrant
1969

Did you ever have a family
Bill Clegg
1791

Diplomatic immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
2002

Disney's Beauty and the beast
Ellen Titlebaum
2002

Disney's James & the giant peach
Lane Smith, Karey Kirkpatrick, Roald Dahl
1996

Disney's Mulan
Katherine Poindexter
1998

Doruntine
Ismail Kadare
1986
Dracula's child
Jonathan Barnes
2020

Dragons
Christopher Rawson, Stephen Cartwright
1979

Dreams
Jayne Ann Krentz
1988
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Drei altschottische Lieder in Original und Uebersetzung aus zwei neuen Sammlungen
1813

Early Irish Myths and Sagas
Jeffrey Gantz
1981
Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves
Sarah M Pike
2001

Edades de Lulu
Almudena Grandes
1993

Edda
Snorri Sturluson, Peder Hansen Resen
1665

Egils saga
Snorri Sturluson
1809Icelandic

Egyptian mythology
Veronica Ions
1965

Encyclopaedia of superstitions
Edwin Radford, Mona A. Radford
1948

Encyclopedia of Superstitions
Richard Webster
2008

Encyclopedia of things that never were
Michael F. Page, Robert Ingpen
1985

Ensaio sobre o termo da história
Vieira, António
1946

Epic Continent
Nicholas Jubber
2019

Esperanza
Danielle Steel
1652

Essays On Indo-Aryan Mythology
Narayan Aiyangar
1898