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
Fragments of Forgotten Creations: The Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence
HealerRiz
2026
Gnostic Revisions Of Genesis Stories And Early Jesus Traditions
Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
2006
Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
Stephan A. Hoeller
2002
Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond
Clive Bloom
1998
Imaginary Muslims: The Uwaysi Sufis of Central Asia
Julian Baldick
1992
In search of truth : Augustine, Manichaeism, and other gnosticism : studies for Johannes van Oort at sixty
J.A. Van Den Berg, Johannes van Oort
2011
Indiáni Severní Ameriky
Larry J Zimmerman, Brian Leigh Molyneaux
2003Czech
- Read free
Jack the giant killer
1870
- Read free
Jacky Dandy's delight
1819
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Jacky Dandy's delight, or, The history of birds and beasts
1820
Jewish tales of reincarnation
Yonassan Gershom
1999
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Kachi-Kachi Mountain
1892
Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages: Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds
Charles Burnett
1996
Magic plants
Johann Heinrich Heucher, M. J. H. Heucher
1886
Mandarin primer
Yuen Ren Chao
1948
Martin Delrio: Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation
Jan Machielsen
2015
Matrix of Creation: Sacred Geometry in the Realm of the Planets
Richard A. Heath
2004
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Momotaro, or, Little peachling
1892
Mysticism and Kingship in China
Julia Ching
1997
Nature Spirits: Selected Lectures
Rudolf Steiner, Wolf-Ulrich Klünker
2005
No Religion Higher Than Truth: A History of the Theosophical Movement in Russia, 1875-1922
Maria Carlson
2015
Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religion
Mircéa Éliade
1976
Orphée aux enfers
Jacques Offenbach
1800
Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking
Tuomas Rasimus
2009