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
The Tragedies of L. Annaeus Seneca the philosopher
Seneca the Younger, Colluthus of Lycopolis, Edward Sir Sherburne
1702
The Tragedy of Orestes
Thomas Goffe
1633
The Wharbroke legend
Abel Moysey
1820
The adventures of Neoptolemus
Chansierges M
1768
The age of Saturn
Peter Brown
1991
The age of superstition, containing remarks on Methodist preachers
Silas Winch
1795
The ancient historie of the destruction of Troy
Raoul Lefèvre
1636
The ant, and the nightingale: or Father Hubburds tales
Thomas Middleton
1604
The bird talisman
Henry Allen Wedgwood
1887
The book of the foundation of St. Bartholomew's church in London
Bartholomew-the-Great
1886
The book of the thousand nights and one night
John Payne
1882Arabic
The borders of the Tamar and the Tavy
Anna Eliza Bray, Robert Southey
1879
The boy who drew cats
Lafcadio Hearn
1898
The brazen serpent
Edward D. Griffin
1832
The captivity and sufferings of Gen. Freegift Patchin of Blenheim, Schoharie County, among the Indians under Brant, the noted chief, during the border warfare in the time of the American Revolution
Josiah Priest
1833
The case for UFO crash secrets
Timothy Green Beckley
2013
The choice of Paris
S. G. W. Benjamin
1870
The chronicles of Jeraḥmeel; or, The Hebrew Bible historiale
Elʻazar ben Asher ha-Leṿi
1899
The clasical [sic] story of Jupiter & Danaë
John Godfrey Saxe
1882
The compleat works in verse and prose, of George Waldron, gent., late of Queen's college, Oxon
George Waldron, Theodosia Waldron
1731
The curse of Koshiu
Lewis Wingfield
1888
The cycles of the kings
Myles Dillon
1946
The death-song of Thamyris
Edward Henry Pember
1899
The destruction of Troy
Raoul Lefèvre, William Caxton
1670