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
A selection of Anancy stories
Wona pseud
1899
A sermon upon the late dreadful storm
Thomas Bp. of Chichester Manningham
1704
A short account of further Bushman material collected
Lucy Lloyd
1889
A short and true account of the Inquisition and its proceedings
Girolama Bartolomeo Piazza
1722
A supplement to the Sheffield glossary
Sidney Oldall Addy
1891
A. L. Millin's Mythologische gallerie
A. L. Millin
1836
Account of the writings, religion, and manners, of the Hindoos
William Ward
1811
Achilles
John Gay
1733
African folk life
Héli Chatelain
1897
African folk-lore
Lucy Lloyd
1878
Afterlives
Nancy Caciola
2016
Aino fairy tales
Basil Hall Chamberlain
1887
Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus
Paul Weston
2009
Ambitions scourge
Sands Penuen
1611
American nightmares
Dale Bailey
1999
An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century
Richard Morris
1872ANG
An Old French prose version of La vie de St. Alexis
George C. Keidel
1896
An accurate and complete description of sleep
New system of philosophy Author of a late piece entitled
1784
An address delivered before the Erie County Medical Society
W. Flint, Erie County Medical Society
1851
An address to men of science, calling upon them to stand forward and vindicate the truth from the foul grasp and persecution of superstition
Richard Carlile
1821
An archaic dictionary: biographical, historical, andmythological
William Ricketts Cooper
1876
An astrological discourse vpon the great and notable coniunction of the tvvo superiour planets, Saturne & Iupiter, which shall happen the 28 day of April, 1583
Richard Harvey
1583
An essay on Mr. Pope's Odyssey
Joseph Spence
1737
An essay on the original genius and writings of Homer
Robert Wood
1824