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
Love's mistress
Thomas Heywood
1792
Lucian's Charon: or, A survey of the follies of mankind
Lucian of Samosata
1700
Mac
Mary Kellogg Johnson
1895
Magic, body and social order
Laura Stark
1998
Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena
Daniel P. Kidder
1848
Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena
Thomas O. Summers
1857
Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena. Remarkable delusions, or, Illustrations of popular errors
Religious Tract Society
1848
Mamma's black nurse stories
Mary Pamela Ellis Milne-Home
1890
Mammy's reminiscences
Martha S. Gielow
1898
Man & beast here & hereafter
J. G. Wood
1800
Margaret and her friends; or, Ten conversations with Margaret Fuller upon the mythology of the Greeks and its expression in art
Caroline Wells Healey Dall
1895
Marvellous adventures, or, The vicissitudes of a cat
Pilkington Mrs
1814
Marvellous adventures, or, The vicissitudes of a cat
Mary Pilkington
1814
Matsuyama kagami
T. H. Mrs James
1888
Medea
Richard Glover
1761
Mediaeval legends
Leighton Mrs
1895
Mel Heliconium
Alexander Ross
1643
Mel Heliconium, or, Poeticall honey
Alexander Ross
1643
Mel heliconium: or, Poeticall honey, gathered out of the weeds of Parnassus
Alexander Ross
1642
Memoirs of Dick, the little poney
Benjamin Tanner, Samuel Howitt
1813
Memoirs of monkeys, &c. &c
Nathaniel Ogle
1825
Memorials of Saint Guthlac of Crowland
Felix, Walter de Gray Birch
1881ANG
Mende story telling
Francis Ngaboh-Smart
1986
Mezhdu dvumi︠a︡ mirami
Olʹga Vladislavovna Belova, T︠S︡entr nauchnykh rabotnikov i prepodavateleĭ iudaiki v vuzakh "Sėfer", International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, Institut slavi︠a︡novedenii︠a︡
2002