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.
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- 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 national songs and legends of Roumania
Eustace Clare Grenville Murray
1859
The nervous and vascular connection between the mother and the foetus in utero
J. O'Reilly
1864
The new pantheon, or, An introduction to the mythology of the ancients, in question and answer
W. Jillard Hort
1809
The nineteen tragedies and fragments of Euripides
Euripides
1782
The old Irish knight
Margaret Graves Derenzy
1828
The oldest Irish tradition
Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
1964
The orders from the Hovse of Commons for the abolishing of superstition and innovation, in the regulating of church affaires
England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons
1641
The oriental moralist
Richard Johnson
1791
The origin of myth
William Preston Johnston
1872
The palace of enchantment, or, Entertaining and instructive fairy tales
William Lane
1788
The passion of S. Perpetua
J. Armitage Robinson
1891
The philosophy of existence
E. G. Kelley
1878
The pleasing companion
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy, William Lane
1788
The poems of Bacchylides
Bacchylides
1897
The poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal
Ossian
1806
The poetical histories
Pierre Gautruche
1671
The poetical history
Pierre Gautruche
1683
The prince of the Fair family
S. C. Mrs Hall
1867
The princess of Tomboso
Frank Newfeld
1960
The princess on the glass hill and other stories based on the tales in the 'Blue fairy book'
Andrew Lang
1890
The profitable arte of gardening now the thirde time set forth
Thomas Hill, Henry Bynneman
1574
The profitable arte of gardeninge, nowe the thirde time sette forth
Thomas Hill
1572
The raging Turk, or, Bajazet the Second
Thomas Goffe
1656
The rape of Helen
John Breval
1737