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
Shards of Honor
Lois McMaster Bujold
1986
Shāhnāmah
Ferdowsi, Amin Banani, Adbul Perdowsi, Firdawsei
1829
Sirius
Olaf Stapledon
1944
Sita, Warrior of Mithila
Amish Tripathi
2017
Slavonic fairy tales
John Theophilus Naaké
1874Czech
Slow Larkin's Revenge
Christine Rimmer
1992
Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta
Elena Ferrante
2000Chinese
- Read free
Stories from China
Hezekiah Butterworth
1876
- Read free
Stories from Plato and Other Classic Writers: Hesiod, Homer, Aristophanes, Ovid, Catullus, and Pliny
Mary Elizabeth Burt
1894
- Read free
Stories from old English poetry
Abby Sage Richardson
1871
- Read free
Stories of long ago
Grace Harriet Kupfer
1897
Strange superstitions and magical practices
William J. Fielding
1945
- Read free
Strange surprising adventures of the venerable Gooroo Simple, and his five disciples, Noodle, Doodle, Wiseacre, Zany, and Foozle
Costantino Giuseppe Beschi
1861
Sundiata
Djibril Tamsir Niane, G. D. Pickett D T Niane
1960
Superstition
Felix E. Planer
1980
Superstitions
C. M. Braysher
1999
Superstitions
Peter Lorie
1992
Superstitions
Deborah Jane Murrell
2008
Superstitious
Robert Lawrence Stine
1995
Suppliant women
Euripides
1763
- Read free
Tales about the Mythology of Greece and Rome.
Peter Parley
1839
Tales and legends from India
Ruskin Bond
1982
Tales of the Dartmoor pixies
William Crossing
1890
Tales of troubled dead
Catherine Belsey
2019