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 heathen mythology
Louisa Brown
1800
The helpe and grace of almighty god ..
John Mirk
1493
The hero of Esthonia
W. F. Kirby
1895
The historie of Titana, and Theseus
W Bettie
1608
The historie of heauen
Christopher Middleton
1596
The history of George a Green, pindar of the town of Wakefield
N. W
1706
The history of Jack and the giant-killer
Andrew Lang
1890
The history of Mother Twaddle and the marvellous atchievements [sic] of her son Jack
A. C. H
1809
The history of Mother Twaddle and the marvellous atchievements [sic] of her son Jack
H.A.C
1809
The history of Patient Grisel
Henry Benjamin Wheatley
1885
The history of Prince Erastus, son to the Emperour Dioclesian and these famous philosophers called the seven wife masters of Rome
Francis Kirkman
1674
The history of the angelicall virgin glorious S. Clare
Luke Wadding
1635
The history of the heavens
Noël Antoine Pluche
1740
The history of the life & martyrdom of St. George, the titular patron of England
Thomas Lowick
1664
The history of the tales of the fairies
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1749
The hollow tree
Albert Bigelow Paine
1898
The hunter in fairy-land
Basil Hall Chamberlain
1887
The incurableness of superstition, or, The impossibility of preserving the Protestant religion and liberties, under the government of a Popish Prince
Samuel Chandler
1749
The intention of the Prometheus bound of Aeschylus
Josiah Royce
1875
The issue with superstition
Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Third Congregational Unitarian Society, Lyric Hall
1870
The judgment of Hercules
Robert Lowth
1743
The king of Currumpaw
Ernest Thompson Seton
1894
The language of flowers
Robert Tyas
1875
The language of flowers, with illustrative poetry
Frederic Shoberl
1856