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
Arabische Märchen
Denis Chavis
1790German
Araldica pescatoria
Alessandro Pericle Ninni
1890Italian
Aratou Soleōs Phainomena kai diosēmeia
Aratus Solensis
1559Ancient Greek
Araukanische märchen und erzählungen mitgeteilt von Segundo Jara (Kalvun) gesammelt und übersetzt von dr. Rudolf Lenz
Pehuenche Indian Calvun, Rudolf Lenz
1896German
Argonauticon
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Louis Carrion, Apollonius Rhodius
1565Latin
Ariane dans l'isle de Naxos
Edelmann signor
1783French
Aristotelous peri thaumasion akousmaton
Johann Beckmann
1786Latin
Arnamagnaeanische fragmente
Árni Magnússon, Gustav Morgenstern
1893German
Arnims Tröst Einsamkeit
Ludwig Achim von Arnim
1883German
Arnoldi Lubecensis Gregorius peccator de Teutonico Hartmanni de Aue in Latinum translatus
Hartmann von Aue, Gustav von Buchwald
1886GMH
Arrest de la cour du Parlement qui déclare abusifs quatre brefs ou décrets au sujet de la légende de Grégoire VII. Du 23 février 1730
France
1730French
Aruest banakan kam tramabanutʻiwn Pʻrankiskosi Soawēi
Francesco Soave
1825Armenian
Aṛdzeṛn ditsʻabanutʻiwn kam Aṛaspelakhaṛn vēpkʻ
Eduard Hiwrmiwz
1840Armenian
Aschenbrödel
Moritz von Schwind
1873German
- Read free
Asgard and the Gods: Tales and Traditions of Our Northern Ancestors, Forming a Complete Manual of Norse Mythology
M. W Macdowall, Wilhelm Wägner
1902
- Read free
Asgard and the Gods: Tales and Traditions of Our Northern Ancestors, Told for Boys and Girls
M. W Macdowall, Wilhelm Wägner
1880
Aspekte der magischen Weisheit in den epischen Liedern der Edda und der finnisch-karelischen Volksdichtung
Sabine Schmalzer
2017German
Astarbe
Colardeau M
1760French
Asāṭīr al-awwalīn
Mīkhāʾīl ʻAbd Allāh Ghabraʾīl
1894Arabic
Atalzaide
Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
1745French
Atalā, aw, Qatalahā al-ḥubb
François-René de Chateaubriand
1882Arabic
Athanasii Kircheri è Societ. Jesu, Sphinx mystagoga
Athanasius Kircher
1676Italian
Athugasemdir við vísurnar i Eyrbyggju
Janus Jónsson
1898Icelandic
Atlas, sive Yiśraʾel
Andreas Schick, Gabriel N. Mathesius
1744Latin