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
Faust
Karl Alexander Freiherr von Reichlin-Meldegg
1864
Faythfull and true storye of the destruction of Troye
Dares Phrygius
1553
Ferns and fern-lore
Willard Nelson Clute
1896
First six books of Virgil's Æneid
Virgil, Edward Brooks, Frederick Davidson
1896
Fishes of fancy
Phil Robinson
1883
Flaxman's classical outlines
John Flaxman
1879
Flora symbolica; or, The language and sentiment of flowers
John H. Ingram
1869
Floral biography, or, Chapters on flowers
Charlotte Elizabeth
1840
Flowers and their kindred thoughts
M. A. Bacon
1848
Flowers from a Persian garden
William Alexander Clouston
1894
Folk-lore and legends
Eugene Field
1891
Folk-phrases of four counties (Glouc., Staff., Warw., Worc.)
G. F. Northall
1894
Folk-story and verse
William Adams
1899
Folklore of the Australian aborigines
Robert Hamilton Mathews
1899
For as moche as late by the comau[n]dement of the right hye [and] noble princesse my right redoubted lady my lady Margarete by the grace of god Duchesse of Bourgoyne Brabant [et]c. [...] as to the historie of Iason [...]
Raoul Lefèvre
1477
Fortune in her wits
Abraham Cowley
1705
Forty-one Eastern tales and anecdotes
Edward William Lane
1854
Freemasonry
Jack M. Driver
2006
From Snowdon to the sea
Marie Trevelyan
1894
Garuda Purana and other Hindu ideas on death, rebirth and immortality
Devdutt Pattanaik
2022
George Cruikshank's fairy library
George Cruikshank
1860
George Cruikshank's fairy library
Francis Bullard, George Cruikshank, Grenville Lindall Winthrop
1890
German fairy tales and popular stories
Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Edgar Taylor, George Cruikshank, Ludwig Emil Grimm
1856
German household tales
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
1897