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
De Hyla
Gustav Turk
1894Latin
De Olympionicarum statuis
Christian Scherer
1885Latin
De Pelopis fabula
Otto Kramer
1886Latin
De Platonicis mythis
Louis Couturat
1896Latin
De Promethes Aeschyleo
Ferdinand Seelmann
1876German
De Pĕlandoek djinaka, of Het guitige dwerghert
Hillebrandus Cornelius Klinkert
1893Indonesian
De Saint Laurent
Werner Soderhjelm
1888French
De Sphinge Graecarum fabularum commentationem mythologicam
Reinhold Schröter
1880Latin
De Tantalo
Johan Emil Hylén
1896Latin
De Theogoniae Orphicae forma antiquissima dissertatio
Franz Susemihl
1890Latin
De Theoxeniis
Friedrich Deneken
1881Latin
De apium mellisque apud veteres significatione et symbolica et mythologica
Walter Robert-tornow
1893Latin
De aureae aetatis fabulo disputatio
Wilhelm Klingender
1856Latin
De barba deorum ex priscarum Graeciae et Latii maxime religionum monimentis
Johann Friedrich Guehling
1725Latin
De coeli in generis humani cultum vi ac potestate
Heinrich Robert Stöckhardt
1826Latin
De cultu Dioscurorum apud graecos
James Morton Paton
1894Latin
De cultu ac usu luminum antiquo qui qualis fuerit
Heinrich Christian Ludwig Stockhausen
1727Latin
De deis gentium libri siue Syntagmata XVII
Lilio Gregorio Giraldi
1565Latin
De deis gentium libri, sive, Syntagmata XVII
Lilio Gregorio Giraldi
1565Latin
De diis Samagitarum libellus
Jan Łasicki
1868German
De dis patrōois
Bader
1873Latin
De dis syris syntagmata II
John Selden
1617Latin
De fabellis cum collegii Septem sapientium memoria coniunctis quaestiones criticae
Harro Wulf
1896Latin
De fabula Ariadnaea
Ludwig Pallat
1891Latin