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
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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
Lwanda Magere
Okoiti Omtatah
1991
Mahabharata Patriline
Simon Pearse Brodbeck
2016
Myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses
Publius Ovidius Naso, Ovid, John T. White
1872
Médée
Luigi Cherubini
1797Italian
Norse mythology, or, The religion of our forefathers
Rasmus Björn Anderson
1879
On the original inhabitants of Bharatavarṣa or India
Gustav Salomon Oppert
1888
On the sources of the Nonne prestes tale
Kate Oelzner Petersen
1898
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gregory Rabassa, Gabriel García Márquez
2007
Plutarchus, and Theophrastus, on superstition; with various appendices, and a life of Plutarchus
Julian Hibbert
1828
Popular tales from the Norse
George Webbe Sir Dasent, George Dasent
1859
Portuguese folk-tales
Zophimo Consiglieri Pedroso
1882
Representative Irish tales
William Butler Yeats
1890
Saga and myth in ancient Ireland
Gerard Murphy
1955
Sammlung jüdischer Geschichten
Johann Caspar Ulrich
1768
Scottish Tradition
David Buchan
2015
Semele
George Frideric Handel
1750
Sources of Spenser's Classical Mythology
Alice Elizabeth Sawtelle Randall
1896
Strange occurrences
Leopold Davis
1877
Superstitions
Peter Høeg
1979
The Fians
John Gregorson Campbell
1891
The Holocaust, or, The witch of Monzie
George Blair
1845
The Norse element in Celtic myth
J. Rogers Rees
1898
The Pantheon
Andrew Tooke
1738
The Romance of Indian Life
Mary H. Eastman
1853