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.
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- 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 fabula Cupidinis et Psyches
Johann Christian Elster
1829Latin
De fabula Phaethontea
Adolf Bangert
1885Latin
De fabula Philoctetae
Carl Friedrich Ernst Kurze
1864Latin
De fabulis Arcadiae antiquissimis
Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand
1859Latin
De gloria, libri V
Jerónimo Osório
1571Latin
De godsdienst der oude Normannen
Louis Susan Pedro Meyboom
1868Dutch
De heroibus eleusiniis ac praecipue de triptolemo
Gustav Behncke
1863Latin
De hymnis Orphicis
B. Büchsenschütz
1851Latin
De hymnis Orphicis capitula quinque
Albrecht Dieterich
1891Ancient Greek
De incantationibus, seu Ensalmis. Opusculum primum
Manuel do Vale de Moura
1620Latin
De l'astrologie judiciaire
Laurent Bordelon
1689French
De la couronne du soldat ; Aux martyrs
Tertullian
1613French
De leonis in sacris Aegyptiorum et Babyloniorum signo
Kolbe
1866German
De morte Bacchi
Christian A. Lobeck
1810Latin
De mvltiplici haereticorvm tentatione
Joannes Vacquerius
1560Latin
De mythe van Kronos
C. P Tiele
1885Dutch
De mythologiae comparativae quae vocatur rationibus observationes nonnullas
Carl Julius Caesar
1877Latin
De nummis Cretensium serpentiferis disquisitio antiquaria
Lorenz Beger
1702Latin
De ontwikkelingsgang der germaansche mythologie
Barend Symons
1892Dutch
De oorsprong en uitlegging van dagelijks gebruikte Nederduitsche spreekwoorden
Carolus Tuinman
1726Dutch
De origine indicis deorvm cognominvm
Walter Hugo Michaelis
1898Latin
De planten in het germaansche volksgeloof en volksgebruik
Ludolf Anne Jan Wilt Baron Sloet van de Beele
1890Dutch
De plantis quas ad rem magicam facere crediderunt veteres ...
Friedrich Mentz
1705Latin
De propheticis
Mark Lidzbarski
1893Latin