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
Legends of the flowers
Susan Pindar
1851
Legends of the fresco paintings in the New Trinkhall at Baden-Baden
Jakob Goetzenberger
1850
Legends of the highlands from Scotland
James Grassie
1843
Legends of the patriarchs and prophets, and other Old Testament characters
S. Baring-Gould
1883
Legends, traditions and superstitions of Westchester
Charles Pryer
1890
Leggende e tradizioni patrie
Tommaso Aurelio de Felici
1855
Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte
Heinrich Friedrich Ferdinand Schmid
1868
Leicestershire & Rutland
Charles J. Billson
1895
Letters from the Hon. David Humphreys, F. R. S. to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks ...
David Humphreys, Joseph Banks
1817
Letters to a friend, concerning the Septuagint translation, and the heathen mythology
Robert Spearman
1759
Liber festivalis et Quatuor sermones
John Mirk
1499
Light in darkness, or, Deliverance proclaimed unto the church in the midst of all her despondencies and discouragements
Thomas Watson
1686
Lion, the mastiff
Annie Gregg Savigny
1895
Little Ella and the fire king
M. W
1861
Little Mr. Thimblefinger stories
Joel Chandler Harris
1894
Little Prudy's fairy book
Sophie May
1865
Little Red Riding Hood
Charles Perrault
1895
Little Red Riding Hood
M. A. Hoyer
1890
Little Red Riding Hood, The fairy, and Blue Beard
Charles Perrault
1797
Little Rudy, and other stories
Hans Christian Andersen
1864
Little Snowdrop
Grace C. Floyd
1896
Little Wanderlin, and other fairy tales
Annie Keary
1865
Little Zee
Julia Daniels Moseley
1881
Local legends and rambling rhymes
John Ross Dix
1839