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
Programme of annual meeting
American Folk-lore Society. Annual Meeting
1894
Prose works
Walter Scott
1834
Psychics, mediums & ghost stories
Edward Kwiatkowski
2002
Queen Mab
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy, Thomas Parnell
1770
Red Riding Hood
Charles Perrault
1890
Remarkable delusions, or, Illustrations of popular errors
Religious Tract Society
1850
Remarks on The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
Richard Hole
1797
Report for the year 1894-1895
Judith Montefiore College
1896
Retrospect of the folk-lore of the Columbian Exposition
Stewart Culin
1894
Revisiting the "Nazi occult"
Monica Black, Eric Kurlander
2015
Riley's Historical pocket library
George Riley
1793
Risālah-i mausūmah ʻilāj al-auhām
Makand Sing̲ẖ
1893
Roberte, the deuyll
Isaac Herbert
1798
Roger Plowman's garland of merrytales
Adin Williams
1879
Romes glory, or, A collection of divers miracles wrought by popish saints, both during their lives and after their deaths
Gilbert Burnet
1673
Roumanian fairy tales and legends
E. B. Mrs Mawr
1881
Russian fairy tales from the Russian of Polevoi
Petr Nikolaevich Polevoĭ
1893
Râs mâlâ, or, Hindu annals of the province of Goozerat in Western India
Alexander Kinloch Forbes, A. K. Nairne
1878
Sacred mountains, characters, and scenes in the Holy Land
Joel Tyler Headley
1867
Sacred symbology
John Mills
1853
Sadducismus triumphatus, or, A full and plain evidence, concerning witches and apparitions
Joseph Glanvill, Henry More, Anthony Horneck
1726
Sagen der nordamerikanischen Indianer
James Athearn Jones
1837
Sanchoniatho's Phoenician history
Sanchuniathon
1720
Sanchoniatho's Phoenician history, translated from the first book of Eusebius De praeparatione evangelica
Herennius of Byblus Philo
1720