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
Antiker aberglaube
Wilhelm Kroll
1897German
Antiquae tabulae marmoreae solis effigie, symbolisque exculptae
Girolamo Aleandro
1616Latin
Antiquités mexicaines
Henri de Saussure
1891French
Antisymbolik
Johann Heinrich Voss
1824German
Antonii van Dale Poliatri Harlemensis Dissertationes De origine ac progressu idololatriae et superstitionum: De vera ac falsa prophetia
Antonius van Dale
1696Latin
Antonini Liberalis Transformationum congeries. Phlegontis Tralliani De mirabilibus [et] longaeuis libellus. Eiusdem De Olympijs fragmentum. Apollonii Historiae mirabiles. Antigoni Mirabil. narrationu[m] congeries. M. Antonini philosophi Imp. Romani, De vita sua libri XII
Antoninus Liberalis, Phlegon of Tralles, Wilhelm Xylander, Apollonius Paradoxographus, Antigonus of Carystus, Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome
1568Ancient Greek
Antsuru zaiseiki
Eijuken Antsuru
1862Japanese
Apollo Smintheus und die bedeutung der mäuse in der mythologie der Indogermanen
Josef Virgil Grohmann
1862German
Apollodori Atheniensis Bibliothecae libri III
Apollodorus of Athens, Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women
1832Greek
Apollodori Atheniensis Bibliothecae libri tres / curis secundis recensuit Chr. G. Heyne
Apollodorus of Athens, Christian Gottlob Heyne
1803Ancient Greek
Apollodori Bibliotheca
Apollodorus of Athens
1854Ancient Greek
Apollodōrou tou Athēnaiou grammatikou bibliothēkēs ē peri theōn biblion 1-[3]
Apollodorus of Athens
1686Greek
Apollodōroū Athenaīoū Bibliothēkes, ē Perī Thēoū, biblia trēis [romanized]
Apollodorus of Athens
1661Latin
Apollonii Argonautica
Apollonius Rhodius
1854Ancient Greek
Apollonii Rhodii Argonauticorum libri quatuor, nunc primùm latinitate donati, atq[ue] in lucem editi
Apollonius Rhodius
1550Latin
Apolloniou Tou Rodiou Argonautika
Apollonius Rhodius
1546Ancient Greek
Apollōniou Rhodiou Argonautikōn Prōton
Apollonius Rhodius, Janus Lascaris, Lorenzo de Alopa, Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Thomas Sir Brooke, James Sir Sawyer
1496Ancient Greek
Apostol, adekă, Sfintsita Karte kuprinzătoare de Faptele shi Epistoliile Sfintsilor Apostoli
Ghiorghi Pojnoi
1851Romanian
Apotheseas tam exterarum gentium qvam Romanorvm deorvm libri tres
Georg Pictorius
1558Latin
Appollodori Atheniensis bibliotheces
Apollodorus of Athens
1661Latin
Apvleivs Madavrensis Platonicus serio castigatus
Lucius Apuleius, Apuleius, Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1624Ancient Greek
Aqui comie[n]ca el libro delos trabajos de Hercules
Enrique de Villena, Antonio de Centenara, James P. R. Lyell
1483Spanish
Arab Regék
Mihály Vörösmarty
1866Hungarian
Arab tales translated from the Swahíli language into the Túgulu dialect of the Mákua language
Daniel J. Rankin
1886