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
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2012Spanish
Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Edıth Wharton
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2017
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Amy Williams Wilson
2018
Witchcraft and folk belief in the age of enlightenment
Lizanne Henderson
2016
Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
Charles Zika
2003
Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories
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1996
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1997
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Date unknown
Forgotten origin
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2011
Hilma af Klint
Pascal Rousseau
2026French
Rainforest Shamans: Essays on the Tukano Indians of the Northwest Amazon
Gerardo Reichel‐Dolmatoff
1997
Languages of Witchcraft
Stuart Clark
2001
Monsterland
Nicholas Jubber
2025
Western Hostility to Islam and Prophecies of Turkish Doom
Kenneth M. Setton
1992
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Robert Turner, Donald Tyson
2009
Ship of ghosts
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2006
Fingerprints of the gods : a quest for the beginning and the end
Graham Hancock
1996
Sasquatch
Jeff Meldrum
2007
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'Grieshabersche Predigtsammlung', Heiligenpredigten. Legenden aus 'Der Heiligen Leben' - BSB Cgm 306
1. Hälfte 15. Jh.German