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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C. Valerii Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon libri octo
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, printer Societas Bipontina
1724Latin
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Contes populaires des anciens bretons
Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué, La Villemarqué, Théodore Hersart, Vicomte de
1842French
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Danmarks Historie i Hedenold
Niels Matthias Petersen
1854Danish
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Das goldene Vliess
Franz Grillparzer
1822German
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Der Aberglaube des Mittelalters: Ein Beitrag zur Culturgeschichte
Heinrich Bruno Schindler
1858German
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Der Sagenschatz und die Sagenkreise des Thüringerlandes
Ludwig Bechstein
1835German
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Dissertatio academica de magia hyperboreorum veterum ...
Olavus Hamnell
1709Latin
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Folkdiktning
Eva Wigström
1880Swedish
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In Sardegna leggende e cronache dei tempi antiche
Giuseppe Bargilli, purchased 1921" on the inside front cover. IU-R University of Illinois Library bookplate "From the library of Conte Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana Lazelada di Bereguardo
1881Italian
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Le culte de Castor et Pollux en Italie
Maurice Albert
1883French
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Parallèle des traditions mythologiques avec les récits bibliques
Jules Corblet, Royal College of Physicians of London
1845French
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Sagen aus den Gegenden des Rheins und des Schwarzwaldes
Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber
1829German
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Four and Twenty Fairy Tales, Selected From Those of Perrault and Other Popular Writers
Edward Henry Corbould, Edward Dalziel, George Dalziel, James Godwin, William Harvey, Charles Perrault, James Robinson Planché
1858
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Im Nibelungenlande
Christian Mehlis
1877German
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Knightly legends of Wales
Sidney Lanier, Alfred Fredericks
1881
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Les Franc ʹais a Cythere
Louis Germain Petitain, Polichinelle, Mâlo Cloud
1798French
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Leyendas históricas árabes
Francisco Javier Simonet
1858Spanish
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Meleagrides et Aetolia, ex numismate Kyrieōn apud Goltzium
Lorenz Beger, Ulrich Liebpert
1696Ancient Greek
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Quinti Smyrnaei Posthomericorum libri XIV
Quintus Smyrnaeus
1891Ancient Greek
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Sessanta novelle popolari montalesi: circondario di Pistoia
Gherardo Nerucci
1880Italian
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Sprachliches aus den Zeltlagern der syrischen Wüste
Johann Gottfried Wetzstein
1868Arabic
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Supersticiones de los indios filipinos
American Philosophical Society. Library, Wenceslao Emilio Retana
1894Spanish
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Symbolorvm et emblematvm ex re herbaria desvmtorvm centvria vna
Joachim Camerarius
1590Latin
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Arion
Karl Klement
1898German