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
Mährchen-Bibliothek für Kinder
Albert Ludwig Grimm
1820German
Nama und Damara
Hugo von François
1896German
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New fairy tales from Brentano
Clemens Brentano
1888
Norddeutsche Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche aus Meklenburg, Pommern, der Mark, Sachsen, Thüringen, Braunschweig, Hannover, Oldenburg und Westfalen
Adalbert Kuhn
1848German
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Norse stories retold from the Eddas
Hamilton Wright Mabie
1895
Nye folke-eventyr og sagn fra Valdres og Hallingdal
Hallvard A. E Bergh
1882Norwegian
Når lyset bliver flugt - dette er ikke New Age
Anders Dræby
2025Danish
Obři, aneb, Mysterium počátků
Louis Charpentier
2009Czech
Officina Ioan Ravisii Textoris Nivernensis Nunc Demum Post Tot Editiones diligenter emendata, aucta, & in longè commodiorem ordinem redacta,Cui hac editione accesserunt...
Joannes Ravisius Textor
1520Latin
Opuscula mythologica, ethica et physica. Graece et Latine
Thomas Gale
1671Latin
Prodigiorvm ac ostentorvm chronicon, quæ præter naturæ ordinem, motum, et operationem, et in svperioribus & his inferioribus mundi regionibus, ab exordio mundi usque ad hæc nostra tempora, acciderunt
Konrad Lykosthenes
1557Latin
Studi Sastra Lisan
Yoseph Yapi Taum
2011Indonesian
Tahtakuşlar Köyünde Şamanizm’in İzleri
Umay Yayınevi, Feride Kızıldağ
2026
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Tales of superstition and chivalry
Anne Bannerman
1802
The Afterlife in Mythology, Religion, and Philosophy
Yoesoep Edhie Rachmad
2026
The Cultural Evolution of Afterlife Beliefs: A Comparative Analysis
Yoesoep Edhie Rachmad
2026
The a to Z of Witchcraft
Michael D. Bailey
2009
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The history of Jack the giant killer
1850
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The origin of all religious worship
Dupuis
1872
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The recuyles or gaderige to gyder of ye hystoryes of Troye
Raoul Lefèvre
1503
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The wooden bowl
1892
What Can a Neoi Gwei Teach Us? Adaptation as Reincarnation in Hong Kong Horror of the 1950s
Raymond Tsang
2018
Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity
Anne DeLong
2012
Witchcraft and Magic
Helen A. Berger
2005