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
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La vie de saint Alexis
Alexius Saint, Saint. Legend Alexius
1872French
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Legendový příběh Sv. Doroty v literatuě české a staročeská píseň ku sv. Korotě
Jan Gebauer
1878Czech
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Légendes pour les enfants
Dieudonné Alexandre Paul Boiteau, Bertall
1861French
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O narodnoĭ poėzĭi v drevne-russkoĭ literaturi︠e︡
Fedor Ivanovich Buslaev, Yudin Collection DLC
1859Russian
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The Marquis of Carabas' picture book
Walter Crane, Edmund Evans, Sarah Catherine Martin
1874
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Arabesques mythologiques, ou les attributs de toutes les divinit©♭s de la fable. Ouvrage fait pour servir © l'©♭ducation de la jeunesse
comtesse de Genlis Stéphanie Félicité, Stéphanie Félicité Genlis
1810French
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Ausgewählte Erzählungen in Mâhârâshṭrî
Hermann Georg Jacobi, Hermann Jacobi
1886German
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Blue Beard, or, Fatal curiosity
Orlando.pbl Hodgson, Charles Perrault, Sears & Trapp.prt
1832
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Iconografia
Giovanni Angelo Canini
1669Latin
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Narodnyi︠a︡ i︠u︡zhnorusskīi︠a︡ skazki
Ivan Bilȳk
1869Ukrainian
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Opus polyhistoricum, dissertationibus XXV de osculis, subnexisque de Judae ingenio, vita et fine, sacris epiphyllidibus, absolutum ...
Martin von Kempen
1680Latin
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Riquet with the Tuft
Orlando.pbl Hodgson
1832
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Scottish Myths
Robert Craig Maclagan
1882
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Sul dipinto esposto nelle sale dell' I. R. Accademia delle belle arti nel Palazzo di Brera in Milano dal signor Pietro Luchini, rappresentante Tancredi ferito trovato da Erminia e Vafrino
Ottavio Tasca
1834Italian
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Tom Thumb's folio, or, A new penny play-thing, for little giants
Printed by J. Kendrew
1810
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Vincentii Chartarii Rhegiensis Imagines deorum
Vincenzo Cartari
1687Latin
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Arabesques mythologiques, ou Les attributs de toutes les divinités de la fable
comtesse de Genlis Stéphanie Félicité, Charles-Jacques Barrois, Antoine-Joseph Gaitte
1810French
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Bi͡elorusskiĭ sbornik
Ramanaŭ Eŭdakim Ramanavich, Ramanaŭ Eŭdakim Ramanavich, 1855-1922. [from old catalog]
1800Russian
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Essai sur les légendes pieuses du moyen-âge
F. Alfred Maury, L.-F.-Alfred Maury
1843French
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Friderici Ludovici Abresch Animadversionum ad Aeschylum libri duo
Friedrich Ludwig Abresch
1743Latin
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Ifigenia in Aulide
Eduardo Fabbri
1820Italian
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Istoricheskīe ocherki russkoĭ narodnoĭ slovesnosti
Fedor Ivanovich Buslaev
1861Russian
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Les Argonautes
Asmus Jakob Carstens
1799French
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Rabbinnische Anthologie, oder, Sammlung von Erzählungen, Sprichwörtern, Weisheitsregeln, Lehren und Meinungen der alten Hebräer
Raphael Jacob Fürstenthal
1835German