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
De montibus, sylvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, et de nominibus maris
Giovanni Boccaccio
1473Italian
Dede Korkut Oğuznameleri
Semih Tezcan, Hendrik Boeschoten
2001Turkish
Della forma delle muse
Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo
1591Italian
Der Himmel und seine Wunder
Joseph Bergel
1881German
Der Höhencultus
Klaus Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg
1891German
Der Pentamerone
Giovanni Battista Basile
1846German
Der Urwesen, oder, Das Reich des Kronos
J. A. Hartung
1865German
Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras
Antonio de León y Gama
1792Spanish
Deutsche Hausmärchen
Johann Wilhelm Wolf
1858German
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Deutsche Sagen
1904German
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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
1898
Die Anfänge der Cultur
Edward Burnett Sir Tylor
1873German
Die Kronos-Kinder und das Reich des Zeus
J. A. Hartung
1866German
Die Persönlichkeit Jesu Christi
Emanuel Marius
1881German
Die Religion der Römer
J. A Hartung
1836German
Die Zeus-Kinder und die Heroen
J. A. Hartung
1873German
Die neue Weltordnung nach Vernichtung des sündigen Menschengeschlechtes
Heinrich Brugsch
1881Ancient Egyptian
Die samoanische Schöpfungs-Sage und Anschliessendes aus der Südsee
Adolf Bastian
1894German
Dronning Margrete
Bernhard Severin Ingemann
1882Danish
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El Folklore de Oaxaca
1917Spanish
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Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World: A Comprehensive Library of Human Belief and Practice in the Mysteries of Life
1903
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Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community
1999
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Epic and Saga: Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel; The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
1910
Eventyr og historier
H. C. Andersen, Herluf Jensenius, Helge Gottlieb Topsøe-Jensen
1862Danish