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
Bidrag til kritiken af Bandamannasagas text
Gustaf Cederschiöld
1888Swedish
Bilawhar wa-Būdhāsaf fī al-mawāʻiẓ wa-al-amthāl al-ḥikmīyah
Avicenna
1889Arabic
Bilderbuch für Mythologie, Archäologie und Kunst
Aloys Hirt
1805German
Billeder af livet paa Island
Winkel Horn
1871Danish
Bindestuens saga
Evald Tang Kristensen
1897Danish
Bi︠e︡lorusskīĭ sbornik
E. R. Ramanaŭ
1885Russian
Bjarnar saga Hítdaelakappa
R. C. Boer
1893German
Blockes-Berges Verrichtung, oder, Ausführlicher geographischer Bericht
Johannes Praetorius, Christian Deetjen
1668German
Blumenmärchen
Paul Mantegazza
1890German
Boenga rampai
Adolf Friedrich von Dewall
1890Indonesian
Brage-snak om græske og nordisk myter og oldsagn for damer og herrer / af Nik. Fred. Sev. Grundtvig
N. F. S. Grundtvig
1844Danish
Bremen's Volkssagen
Friedrich Wagenfeld
1844German
Breves noticias acerca de un drama lírico del siglo XIII
Víctor Balaguer
1879Spanish
Breves observationes de superstitione et sacrilegio oppositis religioni & virtutibus huic annexis
Gommaire Huygens
1698Latin
Briefe über Homer und Hesiodus vorzüglich über die Theogonie
Gottfried Hermann
1818German
Briefe über die griechische Mythologie für Frauen
Caroline de La Motte Fouqué
1812German
Brod und Wein, oder die beiden Dionyse
Johann Traugott Leberecht Danz
1843German
Brot af Placidus-drápu
Sveinbjörn Egilsson
1833
Bruchstücke zweier legenden von der heiligen Dorothea und heiligen Katharina
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Joseph Diemer
1854German
Buddiǐskii︠a︡ legendy
S. F. Olʹdenburg
1894Russian
Butsina di-nehora
Baruch ben Jehiel of Medzibezh
1880Hebrew
Byt zapadno-russkago seli︠a︡nina
I︠U︡ F Krachkovskiĭ
1874Russian
Bájeslovný kalendář slovanský
Ignác Jan Hanuš
1860Czech
Bär (wolf) und fuchs
Kaarle Krohn, Oskar Hackman
1888Finnish