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
Patty and her pitcher, or, Kindness of heart
Alfred Crowquill
1857
Perspectives on the Grateful Dead: Critical Writings
Robert G. Weiner, Rebecca G. Adams, Steve Silberman
1999
Places of Special Virtue: Megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales
Vicki Cummings, Alasdair Whittle
2004
Plays
Aeschylus
1828
Poetics of the Gnostic Universe
Zlatko Pleše
2006
Pseudoscience
Brian Regal
2009
Příběhy síly
Carlos Castaneda
1996Czech
Representing Magic in Modern Ireland
Andrew Sneddon
2022
Rufous Redtail
Helen Garrett
1947
Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice
Robert Lawlor
1982
Selected works
Ovid
1769
Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF
Laurel Kendall
2009
Shockingly Close to the Truth : Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist
James W. Moseley, Karl T. Pflock
2002
Stagestruck vampires & other phantasms
Suzy McKee Charnas
2004
Svatý grál
Sangeet Duchane
2007Czech
Swedish folk-lore
Herman Hofberg
1888
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information
Erik Davis
1998
The Cock Lane ghost : murder, sex and haunting in Dr Johnson's London
Paul Chambers
2006
The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England
Nathan Johnstone
2006
The Future of Language
Philip Seargeant
2023
The Gnostic Jung
Robert A. Segal
1992
The Holcombes, nation builders
Hannah Elizabeth McPherson
1947
The Ossianic lore and romantic tales of medieval Ireland
Gerard Murphy
1955
The book of the thousand nights and a night
Scheherazade
1894