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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Biblioth♯k♯s ♯ peri the¿n biblion ©Ł
Apollodorus of Athens
1686Greek
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Buch der Liebe
Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard, Daniel Chodowiecki, Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature, Christian Gottlieb Geyser
1779German
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Die Stretlinger Chronik
Eulogius Kiburger, Jacob Baechtold, Hans Fründ
1877German
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Islenzkar pjoðsögur og Æfintýri: safnað hefir
Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Jón Árnason
1862Icelandic
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Le vere e nove imagini de gli dei delli antichi
Vincenzo Cartari
1615Italian
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Märkische sagen und Märchen nebst einem Anhange von Gebräuchen und ..
Adalbert Kuhn
1843German
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Rostlinstvo a jeho význam v národních písních, pověstech, bájích, obřadech a pověrách slovanských
Primus Sobotka
1879Czech
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Sagen, Märchen und Lieder der herzogthümer Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg
K. Müllenhoff, Müllenhoff, Karl, 1818-1884, compiler, Müllenhoff, Karl
1845German
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Transkaukasia
August Franz Ludwig Maria von freiherr Haxthausen Abbenberg, August Franz Ludwig Maria von Haxthausen Abbenberg
1856German
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Über die Träume in der altnordischen Sagalitteratur
Wilhelm Henzen
1890German
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Vostochnye motivy v srednevi︠e︡kovom Evropeĭskom ėposie
Grigoriĭ Nikolaevich Potanin
1899Russian
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Amalthea; oder, Museum der Kunstmythologie und bildlichen Alterthumskunde im ..
Karl August Böttiger
1820German
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Aus Schwaben
Anton Birlinger
1874German
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Aus dem inneren und äusseren Leben der Ehsten
Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann
1876German
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Chants et contes populaires de la Gruye re / Julius Cornu
Julius Cornu
1875French
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Das Buch vom Aberglauben ...
Heinrich Ludwig Fischer, Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature
1790German
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Das Kloster: Weltlich und geistlich
Johann Scheible
1845German
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Der Baumkultus der Germanen und ihrer Nachbarstämme
Wilhelm Mannhardt, Johann Wilhelm Emanuel Mannhardt
1875German
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Il Parnaso accusato, e difeso
Pietro Metastasio, Georg Libretto for: Reutter
1738Italian
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Informe contra idolorum cultores del obispado de Yucatan
Pedro Sánchez de Aguilar
1639Latin
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Kinder und Hausmärchen: Gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm
Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm], Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm Jacob Grimm
1843German
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La Escatologia Musulmana en la Divina Comedia
Miguel Asín Palacios
1919Spanish
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Le panthéon, ou, Les figures de la fable
Sylvain Maréchal, Antoine Jean Duclos, Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François, George Malbeste, Jean-Baptiste Patas
1787French
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Mythologie der Volkssagen und Volksmärchen
F. Nork
1848German