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
Asgard and the gods
M. W. MacDowall
1884
Astrology
Hans Eysenck, David K. B. Nias
1982
Astronomical recreations, or, Sketches of the relative position and mythological history of the constellations
Jacob Green
1824
Astronomies and cultures
C. L. N. Ruggles, Nicholas J. Saunders
1993
Astôdân, or a Persian coffin said to be 3,000 years old ; and, Recorded instances of children having been nourished by wolves and birds of prey
Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
1889
Aunt Louisa's fairy legends
L. Valentine
1870
Aunt Mavor's history of five little pigs
George Routledge
1852
Bannkörbe
Aladin Borioli, Bas Blaasse, Sylee Gore, Sylvia Zirden, Veronika Epple
2024
Bards and blossoms; or, The poetry, history, and association of flowers
F. Edward Hulme
1877
Barlaam and Josaphat
Joseph Jacobs
1896
Beauty and the beast
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
1880
Beauty and the beast
Albert Smith
1845
Belle Zoe
Flora Hazelton Bailey
1898
Bits of Louisiana folk-lore
Alcèe Fortier
1888CRP
Blackfoot mythology
John Maclean
1893
Blaine's Outlines of the veterinary art, or
Delabere P Blaine
1865
Blue Beard, or, The fatal effects of curiosity and disobedience
Charles Perrault
1808
Bluebeard
Walter Crane, Edmund Evans, George Routledge and Sons
1875
Book of Ballymote
Robert Atkinson
1887
Books on myths and mythology
James Owen Dorsey
1887
Bringing light to "Twilight"
Giselle Liza Anatol
2011
Brittains glory
Thomas Malory
1684
Brunhild
Emanuel Geibel
1800
Bucolics
Publius Vergilius Maro
1883