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
Tales from Euripides
Euripides
1879
Tales from Molière's plays
Dacre Barrett-Lennard
1859
Tales from Spenser
Sophia H. MacLehose, Edmund Spenser
1893
Tales from the Mabinogion
Meta E Williams
1892
Tales from the Norse
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1890
Tales illustrative of the Apostles' creed
J. M. Neale
1885
Tales of Ardennes
Henry D. Inglis
1825
Tales of Ireland
William Carleton
1834
Tales of an Indian camp
Indian Camp
1829
Tales of old Lusitania
Francisco Adolpho Coelho, Monteiro
1888
Tales of passed times by Mother Goose
Charles Perrault, Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier
1796
Tales of terror
Henry Clair
1833
Tales of the abbey
A. Kendall
1800
Tales of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Legrand cit
1786
Tales of truth
E. H
1800
Tales of yore
W Taylor
1810
Tartarian tales, or, A thousand and one quarters of hours
Thomas-Simon Gueullette
1759
Teton folk lore
James Owen Dorsey
1889
Teton folk-lore notes
James Owen Dorsey
1888
The .xiii. bookes of Æneidos
Publius Vergilius Maro, Thomas Phayer, Maffeo Vegio, Aelius Donatus, Thomas Twyne, William Howe
1584
The Agreeable companion
William Phorson
1783
The Alcestis
Euripides, William Sheldon Hadley
1896
The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
Antoine Galland
1712
The Arabian Nights’ entertainments
C. D. Piguenit
1792