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
Allmogelif i Vestergötland
K. O. Tellander
1891Swedish
Almindelig morskabslæsning i Danmark og Norge igjennem aarhundreder
Rasmus Nyerup
1816Danish
Altarabische Gedichte ueber die Volkssage von Jemen
Alfred Freiherr von Kremer
1867Arabic
Altfranzösische prosalegenden aus der hs. der Pariser nationalbibliothek fr. 818
Adolfo Mussafia
1895FRO
Altmexikanische studien
Eduard Seler
1890German
Alʹbom russkikh narodnykh skazok i bylin
P. N. Petrov
1875Russian
Amarantos, ili, Rozy vozrozhdennoĭ Ėllady
Georgīĭ Ėvlampīos
1843Russian
Americanischer Stadt und Land Calender auf das 1793ste Jahr Christi, welches ein gemein Jahre ist von 365 Tagen
Charles Cist
1792German
Amori sdegni et gielosie di Giunone
Giulio Bonasone
1650Italian
Analecta Euripidea
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
1875Latin
Anciens et Modernes
Paul de Saint-Victor
1890French
Ander Theil D. Joh. Fausti Historien
Fridericus Schotus
1594German
Andeutungen eines Systems der Mythologie entwickelt aus der priesterlichen Mysteriosophie und Hierologie des alten Orients
F. Nork
1850German
Andeutungen über das Princip der Vermittelung im homerischen Götter- und Helden-Dualismus
Johann Andreas Christian Heinecke
1834German
Andreae Rüdigeri ... Physica divina, recta via, eademque inter superstitionem et atheismum media, utramque hominis felicitatem, naturalem atque moralem ducens
Andreas Rüdiger
1716Latin
Andrómeda y Perseo
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
1653Spanish
Anganon' ny ntaolo
Lars Nilsen Dahle
1962MLG
Anmuthige Geschichte von Prinz Gerbino und Prinzessin Rosina
Prinz Gerbino und Prinzessin Rosina
1847German
Anmuthige lange Weile, oder, Allerhand seine ausserlesene seltene und curieuse Discursen, Fragen und Begebenheiten
Franz Christian Paullini
1703German
Annuario para o estudo das tradições populares portuguezas
J. Leite de Vasconcellos, José Leite de Vasconcellos Pereira de Mello
1882Spanish
Antar og Abla
Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall
1871Danish
Antiche leggende e tradizioni che illustrano la Divina commedia precedute da alcune osservazioni di P. Villari
Pasquale Villari, Patrick, Saint Paul the Apostle, Publius Vergilius Maro
1865Italian
Antigone
Vittorio Alfieri
1796Italian
Antike denkmäler zur griechischen Götterlehre
Karl Otfried Müller, Konrad Wernicke, Friedrich Wieseler
1899German