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
Description du balet d'Atalante
Johann Leopold von Ghelen
1756French
Descrizione del passeggio e corso delle stimfalidi al palio, adi 15. di luglio, 1618
Fondo Cicognara
1618Italian
Det i Angers fundne Brudstykke af et Haandskrift af Saxo Grammaticus
Saxo Grammaticus, C. Bruun, Angers. Bibliothèque municipale, Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab
1879Danish
Deutsche Kaisersage
Josef Häussner
1882German
Deutsche Pflanzensagen
Anton von ritter Perger
1864German
Deutsche Sagen und Märchen
Albert Ludwig Grimm
1872German
Deutsche Volks-Mährchen
Franz Hoffmann
1846German
Deutsche Volkslieder mit Volksweisen für Volksschulen
August Zarnack
1818German
Deutsche Volkssagen
Jakob Nover
1891German
Deutsche altertumskunde
K. Müllenhoff
1870German
Deutsche sage im Elsass
Wilhelm Hertz
1872German
Deutsche sagen ...
Albert Richter
1874German
Deutschen heldensagen für jung und alt
Gotthold Klee
1889German
Deutsches Märchenbuch
Ludwig Bechstein
1845German
Deutschpoetisches Lexicon ... 1715
Johann Christoph Männling
1715German
Diccionario abbreviado da fabula
Pierre Chompré, Pedro José da Fonseca
1837Portuguese
Diccionario enciclopédico de historia, biografía, mitología y geografía ..
Louis Grégoire
1874Spanish
Diccionario infernal
J.-A.-S Collin de Plancy
1913Spanish
Diccionario mitológico de Filipinas
Ferdinand Blumentritt
1895Spanish
Dictionnaire abrégé de la fable, ou de la mythologie
David Etienne Choffin
1750French
Dictionnaire abrégé des mythologies
Georges Louis Jacques Duval
1800French
Dictionnaire classique des noms propres de l'antiquité, sacrée et profane ..
Marie Nicolas Bouillet
1826French
Dictionnaire de la sagesse populaire
Louis Pierre François Adolphe marquis de Chesnel de la Charbouclais
1855French
Dictionnaire des superstitions, erreurs, préjugés et traditions populaires
Louis Pierre François Adolphe marquis de Chesnel de la Charbouclais
1856French