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.
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- 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
An essay on the weather
John Mills, John Claridge
1770
An historical account of the heathen gods and heroes
William King
1750
An historical dictionary of all religions from the creation of the world to this present time ...
Thomas Broughton
1742
An historical dissertation upon the Thebean Legion
Jean Dubourdieu
1696
An historical, genealogical, and classical dictionary
Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson
1743
An hour with the devil
De Robigne Mortimer Bennett
1880
An inquiry into the symbolical language of ancient art and mythology
Richard Payne Knight
1818
An introducton to the science of comparative mythology and folklore
George W. Cox
1881
An old fairy tale told anew
Richard Doyle
1865
An oration on superstition, delivered at the annual commencement of Williams College, August 1836
John Wilson
1837
Ancient tide-lore and tales of the sea, from the two ends of the world
William Colenso, R. Coupland Harding
1889
Anecdotes and traditions, illustrative of early English history, derived from ms. sources
William John Thoms, Nicholas Sir L'Estrange, John Aubry, John Collet
1839
Angels
Jacqueline Carey
1997
Angels in the trenches
Leo Ruickbie
2018
Antar, a Bedoueen romance
ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb Aṣmaʻī
1820
Antar, a Bedoueen romance /ctranslated from the Arabic by Terrick Hamilton
ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb Aṣmaʻī
1820
Antiquitates curiosæ
Joseph Taylor
1818
Arabian Nights
Jonathan Scott
1811Arabic
Arabian nightsʾ entertainments
Antoine Galland
1778
Arabian tales
Jacques Cazotte
1794
Arabian tales and anecdotes
Edward William Lane
1845Arabic
Architectvre, mysticism and myth
W. R. Lethaby
1892
Ariadne deserted by Theseus and found and courted by Bacchus
Richard Flecknoe
1654
Aryan theory of divine incarnations
Bhagnánlál R. Bádsháh, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa
1892