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

The Long Walk
Stephen King
1979

The Mahabharata
Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan
1978

The Mahabharata of Vyasa
P. Lal
1980

The Map of Salt and Stars
Zeyn Joukhadar
2018

The Musgraves
D. E. Stevenson
1960

The Mythology Of Greece And Rome - With Special Reference To Its Use In Art
G. H. Bianchi
1881

The Myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome
E. M. Berens
1880

The Oath of the Vayuputras
Amish Tripathi
2013

The Ozidi saga
John Pepper Clark
1977

The Pantheon
François Pomey
1694

The Plains of Passage
Jean M. Auel
1990
- Read free

The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe [4 stories, 43 poems, 1 essay]
Edgar Allan Poe
1884

The Power of Darkness
Edith Nesbit
2006
- Read free

The Princes Fire-flash & Fire-fade
T. H. Mrs James
1892

The Ramayana
Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan
1972

The Ravenscar Dynasty
Barbara Taylor Bradford
1867
- Read free

The Revelation and Incarnation of Mithra, or a sketch of the sacred history of the central world
1829
- Read free

The Scientific Library; Or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature: Comprising Astronomy ..
Thomas Smith
1806

The Secret of the Nagas
Amish Tripathi
2011

The Shadow of the Gods
John Gwynne
2021

The Tain
Ciaran Carson
2008

The Tasha Tudor book of fairy tales
Tasha Tudor
1961

The Vanishing People
Katharine Mary Briggs
1978

The Vor Game
Lois McMaster Bujold
1990