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
- Read free
Weird Tales: German
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Weird Tales: Irish
Date unknown
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Weird Tales: Scottish
Date unknown
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Weird Tit-Bits: American
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(增圖)續今古奇觀
上海書局
1896Chinese
(新評)龍圖神斷公案
Zhi Li, 貴文堂
1821Chinese
... Ausgewählte märchen
Hans Christian Andersen
1870German
... Die auffassung der antike bei Jacques Milet, Guido de Columna und Benoit de Ste-More
Ernst Meybrinck
1886German
...Bibliographie des traditions et de la littérature populaire de la Bretagne
Henri Gaidoz, Paul Sébillot
1882French
A pogány magyarok vallása
Ferenc Kállay
1861Hungarian
A. L. Grimm's Märchenbuch
Albert Ludwig Grimm
1877German
Abbildungen zu Friedrich Creuzer's Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker
Georg Friedrich Creuzer, Heyer und Leske
1819German
Aberglaube im Molkereiwesen
Benno Martiny, Benno Alexis Hans Martiny
1891German
Aberglaube und Strafrecht
A. Levenstim
1897German
Aberglaube unter den Angel-Sachsen
August Fischer
1891German
Aberglauben aus Masuren
M. Töppen
1867German
Abhandlung von den Ueberbleibseln des Heidenthums in den Meynungen vom Tode
Christian August Crusius
1765German
Abhandlungen
Pinkus Friedrich Frankl
1883German
Academiae Atticae encomia & ornamenta, gymnasi commendabilis viva pictura
Valentin Kleinwächter
1644Latin
Accord des mythologies dans la cosmogonie des danites arctiques
Emile Fortuné Stanislas Joseph Petitot
1890French
Achile et Polyxène
Jean Baptiste Lully
1688French
Achilleis
Elard Hugo Meyer
1887German
Achilleus und Polyxena
Choricius of Gaza, Richard Foerster
1882German
Acta s[anctae] Marinae et s[ancti] Christophori
Hermann Usener
1886Greek