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
Dogs I have known
Harry Jones
1893
Dogs and their ways
Charles Williams
1863
Doine
Eustace Clare Grenville Murray
1854
Dolbadarn tower
W. H. of Rhyl Baker
1853
Doĭne, of The national songs and legends of Roumania
Eustace Clare Grenville Murray
1854
Dr. J. J. I. von Do□llinger's Fables respecting the popes in the Middle Ages
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger
1872
Dreams by French firesides
Richard von Volkmann
1890
East coast etchings
Hugh Charles Sir Clifford
1896
Eastern legends
Hobart Caunter
1838
Echoes of an old bell
Augusta Bethell, Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl
1865
Eliza, the Chippeway Indian
American Tract Society
1832
Elkland
Ernest Thompson Seton
1890
English traditions and foreign customs ..
George Laurence Gomme
1885
Entick's new spelling dictionary
John Entick
1787
Epidemic delusions
Frederic Rowland Marvin
1874
Epitome historiæ græcæ
C. J. Ch Siret
1822
Ercole in Tebe
Giovanni Antonio Boretti
1671
Essai sur le déchiffrement de l'écriture hiératique de l'Amérique Centrale
Léon de Rosny, Léon Louis Lucien Prunol de Rosny
1876
Essays on the superstitons of the Highlanders of Scotland
Anne MacVicar Grant
1813
Essays, tales, etc., etc
William Dawbarn
1862
Euripides
John Pentland Sir Mahaffy
1879
Euripidou Iphigeneia hē en Aulidi kai hē en Taurois
Euripides, Jeremiah Markland, Peter Elmsley, Charles James Blomfield
1822
Everything in its right place
Hans Christian Andersen
1870
Exhibition of English literary portraits
Grolier Club
1898