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
Das mineralreich nach seiner stellung in mythologie und volksglauben, in sitte und sage
Carl Joseph Steiner
1895German
Das motiv von der unterschobenen braut in der internationalen erzählungslitteratur
Paul Arfert
1897German
Das verlohrne und wieder-gefundene Schäfflein, oder, Historischer christlicher Bericht von einem jungen Menschen, der sich vom Satan, mit ihm einem Bund zu machen ..
Christian Scriver
1684German
Das älteste Faust-Buch
Wilhelm Scherer
1884German
Dat boek van den houte
Jacob van Maerlant
1550Dutch
Dat duytsche Passionail
Jacobus de Voragine, Ludwig von Renchen
1485German
De Admeti et Alcestidis fabula
Carl Disselius
1882Latin
De Adonide
Wilhelm Greve
1877Latin
De Alcestide Euripidea
Ernst Heinrich Wilken
1867Latin
De Antigones et Ismenes sororum mitho
Edler Carl Friedrich Reuss
1873Latin
De Argonauticarum fabularum historia quaestiones selectae
Maximilian Gröger
1889Latin
De Ariadne quae et Bacchi et Thesei fertur coniux
Hermann Kanter
1879Latin
De Atalanta
Walter Immerwahr
1885Latin
De Atjèthers
C. Snouck Hurgronje
1893Dutch
De Cerere Phigalensi atque de Dipoeno et Scyllide disputatio
Eugen Petersen
1874Latin
De Charonte etrusco
Julius Athanasius Ambrosch
1837Latin
De Cupidine et Psyche
Paul Primer
1875Latin
De Dioscuris, Graecorum diis
J. Schmitz
1869Latin
De Genio Romanorum eumque die natali colendi ratione
Carl Franz C. Wagner
1821Latin
De Glauco Potniensi
Klossowski
1852Latin
De Glossis Habichtianis in quatuor priores tomos MI noctium
Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer
1836Multiple languages
De Graecorum "atēs" notione atque indole
F. J. Scherer
1866Latin
De Hercule attico
Hermann Dettmer
1869Latin
De Herculis laboribus
Ernst August Hagen
1827Latin