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
Acta sanctorum confessorum Guriae et Shamonae
Theophilus of Edessa
1899Latin
Ad Apollodori Atheniensis Bibliothecam notae
Christian Gottlob Heyne
1783Latin
Ad virum clarissimum Albertum Mazzolenum Abbatem Casinensem et Pontidensis Monasterii priorem majorem de Tarsensi Hercule in viridi jaspide insculpto epistola
Casto Innocente Ansaldi
1749Latin
Adam und Eva nach Auffassung des Midrasch
Isaak Dreyfus
1894German
Admiranda ethnicae theologiae mysteria propalata
Johann Friedrich Herwart von Hohenburg
1626Latin
Aeschyli Agameno
Aeschylus
1863Ancient Greek
Affenschwanz et cetera
Charles Marelle
1888French
Agamemnon
Népomucène-Louis Lemercier
1804French
Agamemnon vengé
Jean Georges Noverre
1771French
Agiaetar fornmaña søgur
Björn Markússon
1756Icelandic
Aischylou tragōdia hepta epi Thēbais
Aeschylus
1585Ancient Greek
Aischylou tragōdiai z
Aeschylus
1557Ancient Greek
Akamas und Demophon
Dohmen Hilfslehrer
1893German
Al pie de la encina
Víctor Balaguer
1893Spanish
Al-cassr-ul-mashur (el palacio encantado)
Rodrigo Amador de los Ríos
1885Spanish
Albertus Magnus bewährte und approbirte sympathetische und natürlich Egyptische Geheimnisse für Menschen und Vieh
Albertus Magnus
1857German
Alceste
Saint-Foix M. de
1752French
Alcune favole dello Στεφανιτης και Ἰχνηλατης
Baydabā
1881Multiple languages
Alexandri Sardii Ferrariensis Numinum et heroum origines
Alessandro Sardi
1775Latin
Alf laylah wa-laylah
Scheherazade
1836Arabic
Alf laylah wa-laylah
Muḥammad Qiṭṭah ʻAdawī
1862Arabic
Alkmene und Amphitryon
Winter Dr
1876German
Allerlei provenzalischer volksglaube nach F. Mistral's "Mirèio"
Albert Friedrich Theodor Maass
1896German
Allgemeine Mythologie
Friedrich Kurts
1869German