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
- Read free
Sammlung geistlicher Lehren, Legenden und Sprüche, früher dem Bruder Engelhart in Eberach zugeschrieben - BSB Cgm 172
um Mitte 14. Jh.
- Read free
Sammlung geistlicher Lehren, Legenden und Sprüche, früher dem Bruder Engelhart von Ebrach zugeschrieben - BSB Cgm 181
14. Jh.
- Read free
St. Ursula, Legenden und Gebete. Nachfolge Christi. Vision Georgs von Ungarn - BSB Cgm 451
I: 1. Viertel 16. Jh. II: 2. Hälfte 15. Jh.German
The Irish Cinderlad
Shirley Climo
Date unknown
- Read free
Versus de penitentia 'Poeniteas cito peccator' cum interpretatione Germanica [u.a.] - BSB Clm 4409
12. - 15. Jh.Latin
Encyclopedia of the vampire
S. T Joshi
2011
Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination
Ronald Hutton
2001
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England
Alan Macfarlane, James Sharpe
1970
Daoism
James Robson
2015
Pyramids: The Real Story Behind Egypt's Most Ancient Monuments
Joyce Tyldesley
2003
The Naos of the Decades : from the observation of the sky to mythology and astrology
Anne-Sophie von Bomhard
2008
Le fantôme avec un oeil au beurre noir
Priscilla Howe, Joëlle Dreidemy
2026French
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The Mouse Miller and other stories
Cooke Don-Carlos
Date unknown
The ghost stories of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton, Gore Vidal, Laszlo Kubinyi
1975
A popular history of witchcraft
Montague Summers
2003
The United States of cryptids
J. W. Ocker
2022
Ang mahiwagang daigdig ng mga duwende
Leo R. Paruñgao
1978Tagalog
Antigo Livro de São Cipriano
N. A. Molina
1973Portuguese
Bergische Sagen
Otto Schell
1897German
Centhini
2004Indonesian
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Chinese legends and other poems
William Alexander Parsons Martin
1894
Christblumen
Albert Ludwig Grimm
1824German
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Cinderella
1865
Cuentos mágico-realistas y canciones de fiestas tradicionales
José María Arguedas
1953Spanish