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
L. Annæus Seneca's Troas
Seneca the Younger
1686
La tradition au pays basque
Société d'ethnographie nationale et d'art populaire
1899
Lactantii Placidi qvi dicitvr Commentarios in Statii Thebaida it Commentarivm in Achilleida recensvit Ricardvs Jahnke
Lactantius Placidus
1898
Later tales
Hans Christian Andersen
1869
Lays and legends of the north of Ireland
Cruck-a-Leaghan
1884
Lays and legends of various nations
William John Thoms
1834
Le petit chaperon rouge
François Adrien Boieldieu
1818
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
1867
Legends & superstitions of the country of Durham
William Brockie
1886
Legends and fairy tales of Ireland
P.M. Haverty
1893
Legends and historical sketches of the Iroquois Indians
Glenni W. Mrs Scofield
1887
Legends and superstitions of the sea and of sailors in alllands and at all times
Fletcher Stewart Bassett
1885
Legends and tales of Ireland
Samuel Lover
1800
Legends of Florence, collected from the people and re-told
Charles Godfrey Leland
1895
Legends of Mount Leinster
Patrick) (Kennedy
1855
Legends of MountLeinster
Patrick Kennedy
1855
Legends of Strathisla, Inverness-shire and Strathbogie
Robert Sim
1862
Legends of Venice
Thomas Roscoe, John Rogers Herbert
1840
Legends of gems
Frank Shelley
1893
Legends of old London
John Yonge Akerman
1853
Legends of sepulchral and perpetual lamps
Henry Carrington Bolton
1879
Legends of the Christian East
Bayle St John
1856
Legends of the Dunbars, and other poems
Phoebe Ann Masson
1854
Legends of the Missouri and Mississippi
M. Hopewell
1862