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
- Read free
Tanglewood Tales and Biographical Stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1881
Technicians of the sacred
Jerome Rothenberg
1969
The Apartment
Danielle Steel
2016
The Atlantis researches
Paul Dunbavin
1995
The Barlaam and Josaphat legend in the ancient Georgian and Armenian literatures
F. C. Conybeare
1896
The Basque witch-hunt
Jan Machielsen
2024
The Best fairy tales
Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]
1986
The Breathing Method
Stephen King
1984
The Cambridge companion to Dracula
Roger Luckhurst
2018
The Complete World of Greek Mythology
Richard Buxton
2004
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The Constitutions Of The Free-Masons
1723
The Cuchullin saga in Irish Literature
Eleanor Hull
1898
The Dark Descent
David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, Montague Rhodes James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, Edith Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Smythe Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Dick
1987
The Flowers of Vashnoi
Lois McMaster Bujold
2018
The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews
Yona Sabar
1982
The Fury of the Gods
John Gwynne
2024
The Heart of the Family
Elizabeth Goudge
1920
The Hidden World of Birthdays
Judith Turner
1998
The Highwayman
R. A. Salvatore
2004
The Hindu pantheon
Edward Moor
1810
The Hunger of the Gods
John Gwynne
2022
The Idler
Samuel Johnson, Thomas Warton, Joshua Reynolds
1803
The Immortals of Meluha
Amish Tripathi
2010
The Legends of the Rhine from Basle to Rotterdam
F. J. Kiefer
1870