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.
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- 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
[Sammelband Hof- und Staatsbibliothek
1650Latin
- Read free
Österreichische Kinder- und Hausmärchen
1864German
- Read free
Österreichische Volksmärchen
1822German
- Read free
Über den Zweck der Maurerei im Allgemeinen, und für unsere Zeit insbesondere
1818NOT
Telepathic tales
Daniel Bourke, Gregory Shushan
2025
Cleveland ghosts
Charles Cassady
2008
A Letter from a Brotherhood That Maybe Never Existed
Amelia Febriany
2026
A better way to live after death
Jock Matthew Agai
2017
A treasury of the world's greatest fairy tales
Helen Hyman
1972
Abominable Science!
Donald R. Prothero, Daniel Loxton, Michael Shermer
2013
Ancient Ways: Reclaiming Pagan Traditions
Pauline Campanelli, Dan Campanelli
1991
Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales
Patricia Pulham
2017
Astrology and Cosmology in Early China
David W. Pankenier
2013
Beauty and the beast
Gall & Inglis
1880
Between the Devil and the HostImagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland
Michael Ostling
2011
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Billy Lovegood's history of birds and beasts
1785
Cybernetic Shamanism and the Discipline of Architectural Consciousness
Zack Olinger
2025
Demonology, religion, and witchcraft
Brian P. Levacκ
2001
Early Irish literature
Eleanor Knott
1966
Early modern European witchcraft : centres and peripheries
Bengt Ankarloo, Gustav Henningsen
1990
Encyclopaedia of superstitions, folklore, and the occult sciences of the world
Cora Linn Daniels
1903
Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
2012
Folklore and Zoology
Floe Foxon
2024
Folkloric Bangladesh
Ashraf Siddiqui
1976