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
Aufsätze über Märchen und Volklieder
Reinhold Köhler
1894German
Aula de mythologia
Francisco Inácio Marcondes Barão Homem de Melo
1896Portuguese
Aurelia's zauber Kreis
August Schnezler
1847German
Aus Ost und West
Friedrich Bodenstedt
1861German
Aus dem Lechrain
Karl Freiherr von Leoprechting
1855German
Aus dem deutschen Südtirol
Alois Menghin
1884German
Ausgeburten des Menschenwahns im Spiegel der Hexenprozesse und der Auto da fé's
B. Emil König, Christian Deetjen
1893German
Ausgewählte griechische Volksmärchen
Johannis K. Mitsotakis, Peter Geh
1889German
Autobibliographie
Sébillot, Paul
1891French
Avadānakalpalatā
Kṣemendra, Sarat Chandra Das, Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana, Harimohana Vidyābhūṣaṇa, Lakṣmīkara, Sonton Lochava
1888Sanskrit
Aventures d'Ulysse, dans l'isle d'Ææa
Simon Mamin
1752French
Aʼgyapjas vitézek
András Dugonics
1794Hungarian
Aṛdzeṛn ditsʻabanutʻiwn, kam, Aṛaspelakhaṛn vēpkʻ zditsʻ ew zdiwtsʻazantsʻ
Eduard Hiwrmiwz
1867Armenian
Aṣhāb al-kahf wa-al-raqīm
Mehmet Emin
1848Ottoman Turkish
B[r]itãnie vtriu[s]q[ue] / regũ [&] p[r]ĩcipũ O[r]i / go [&] ge[s]ta in[s]ignia / ab Galfrido Monemuten[s]i ex antiqui[ss]i- / mis Britannici [s]ermonis monumentis in / latinũ [s]ermonẽ traducta : & ab A[s]cen[s]io cu / ra & impẽdio magi[s]tri Iuonis Cauellati in / lucem edita
Bishop of St. Asaph Geoffrey of Monmouth, Josse Badius, Ivo Cavellatus
1508Latin
Bacchus und Pentheus
J. Rivola
1852German
Badische bibliothek
Walther Arnsperger, Carl Theodor Weiss, Otto Kienitz, Karl Wagner
1897German
Badisches Sagen Buch
August Schnezler
1846German
Bahār-i dānish
ʻInāyat Allāh
1700Persian
Bai yun xian biao
Chongshi Wanyan
1847Chinese
Bajki
Ignacy Krasicki
1886Polish
Bajki, klechdy i baśnie
Jan Kasprowicz
1889Polish
Barlaam und Josaphat
Horstmann Dr
1877German
Basme, culese din gura poporului
Dumitru Stancescu
1892Romanian