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
Commentatio de caussis et auctoribus narrationum de mutatis formis ad illustrandum maxime et diiudicandum opus metamorphosium Ovidianum
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Mellmann
1786Latin
Connoissance de la mythologie
Pons Augustin Alletz
1786French
Connoissance de la mythologie, par demandes & par résponses
François-Xavier Rigord
1782French
Cononis Narrationes quinquaginta et Parthenii Narrationes amatoriae
Conon, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Parthenius of Nicaea
1798Ancient Greek
Consideracions sobre la literatura popular catalana
Gayetà Vidal de Valenciano
1879Catalan
Contemplatio gemmarum quarundam Dactyliothecae Gorlaei
Lorenz Beger
1697Latin
Contes Arabes
E. Amélineau
1883French
Contes Arabes
Florence Groff
1888Arabic
Contes arabes tirés des Mille et une Nuits
Antoine Galland
1873French
Contes de Damas
J. Østrup
1897French
Contes de l'île Maurice
Norbert Benoît
1981French
Contes de ma Mere L'Oye
Charles Perrault, S. Fokke
1745French
Contes des fée
Charles Perrault
1785French
Contes des fées
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
1786French
Contes des marins
Paul Sébillot
1882French
Contes des paysans et des pêcheurs
Paul Sébillot
1881French
Contes du Maine
Léon Pineau
1891French
Contes du cheykh êl-Mohdy
Muḥammad al-Mahdī al_ Ḥifnāwī
1835French
Contes du cheykh êl-Mohdy
al-Hafnāwī Muḥammad al-Mahdī
1832French
Contes et legendes de Basse-Bretagne
Émile Souvestre
1891French
Contes et légendes annamites
Antony Charles Céléstin Landes
1886French
Contes et légendes de Bretagne (1856-1898)
Cerny, Elvire Louise Léonarde de Preissac comtesse de
1899French
Contes et légendes
Léon de Laujon
1862French
Contes et légendes du Caucase
J. Mourier
1888French