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
Danske folkeæventyr
Sven Grundtvig
1881Danish
Danske folkeæventyr, fundne i folkemunde og gjenfortalte
Sven Grundtvig
1878Danish
Danske ordsprog og mundeheld, skjaemtsprog, stedlige talemåder, ordspil og samtaleord
Evald Tang Kristensen
1890Danish
Danziger Sagenbuch
Franz August Brandstäter
1883German
Daphnis et Chloé
Longus
1890French
Daphnis et Chloé, ou, Les pastorales de Longus
Longus, Jacques Amyot, Choquet
1863French
Dares Phrigius De excidio Troie
Dares Phrygius
1520Latin
Das Grab des Aberglaubens ...
Ernst Urban Keller
1777German
Das Heldenbuch und die Nibelungen
Karl Rosenkranz
1829German
Das Jahr und seine Tage in Meinung und Brauch der romänen Siebenbürgens
Wilhelm Schmidt
1866German
Das Kloster
J. Scheible
1845German
Das Lied von Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1859German
Das Märchen von den sieben Raben und der treuen Schwester
Moritz von Schwind
1877German
Das Medusenhaupt von Blariacum
Rudolph Gaedechens
1874German
Das Märchen von Amor und Psyche
Ludwig Friedlaender
1888German
Das Passional
Jacobus de Voragine
1482German
Das Siegeskreuz der byzantinischen Kaiser Constantinus VII
Ernst Aus'm Weerth
1866German
Das Totenreich der Indogermanen
Reinhold Schröter
1888German
Das Verhältniss der griechischen Vasenbilder zu den Gedichten des epischen Kyklos
H Luckenbach
1880German
Das Volksbuch vom Doctor Faust
Wilhelm Braune, Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke
1878German
Das Volksschauspiel Doctor Johann Faust
Carl Dietrich Leonhard Engel
1874German
Das Weib in der Natur- und Vo lkerkunde
Hermann Heinrich Ploss
1887German
Das altfranzösische Martinsleben
Péan Gatineau, Werner Soderhjelm
1899FRO
Das ist ein nüwe seltzeme vnd lüstige legend gemacht vsz andern sechs legende[n], vnd sagt von dem vrsprung vnnd leben, marter vnd sterben, vnd ouch von den wunderzeiche[n] der wolgeborne[n] künigin vn[d] Junckfrawen vnd marterin sant Katherinen
Peter Bruder, Johann Grüninger
1500German