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

Everything that has been shall be again
John Gilgun
1724

Fa Mulan
Robert D. San Souci
1998

Fables & Reflections
Neil Gaiman
1993
Facing the fire, taking the stage
Joseph J. Long
2025

Faerie Tale
Raymond E. Feist
1988

Fail nation
Failblog.org
2009
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Fairy tales
Mark Lemon
1868
- Read free

Familiar animals and their wild kindred
John Monteith
1887

Fear Street Sagas - Circle of Fire
Robert Lawrence Stine
1999

Fear Street Sagas - Faces of Terror
Robert Lawrence Stine, Cameron Pokey
1998

Fear Street Seniors - In Too Deep
Robert Lawrence Stine
1998

Fear Street Seniors - Let's Party
Robert Lawrence Stine
1998

Fear Street Seniors - The Thirst
Golden Books, Robert Lawrence Stine
1998

Feather Castles (The Sanguinet Saga #2)
Patricia Veryan
1982

Fin M'Coul
Tomie dePaola
1981

Finity's end
C. J. Cherryh
1997

Floriography
Jessica Roux
2020

Folklore and legends of Trinidad and Tobago
Gérard Besson
2001

Folklore, Myths, and Legends of Britain
Reader's Digest Association
1977

Gassire's Lute
Alta Jablow
1971
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German popular stories
1823
- Read free

German popular stories
1826

Gingerbread Man
Eric A. Kimmel
1993
Gods in the world
Aftab S. Jassal
2024