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
Dictionnaire historique et bibliographique abrégé
Gabriel Peignot
1821French
Dictionnaire iconologique, ou, Introduction à la connoissance des peintures, sculptures, estampes, médailles, pierres gravées, emblemes, devises, &c
Honoré Lacombe de Prézel
1779French
Dictionnaire infernal, ou, Recherches et anecdotes, sur les démons, les esprits, les fantômes, les spectres, les revenants, les loup-garoux, les possédés, les sorciers, le Sabbat, les magiciens, les salamandres, les sylphes, les gnomes, etc
J.-A.-S Collin de Plancy
1818French
Dictionnaire universel de mythologie ancienne et moderne ...
J.-P Migne
1855French
Dictys Cretensis de historia belli Troiani et Dares Phrygius de eadem historia Troiana
Dictys Cretensis
1498Latin
Dictys Cretensis et Dares Phrygius De bello trojano ex editione Samuelis Artopoei, cum notis et interpretatione
Dictys Cretensis
1825Latin
Die Aegyptische Goettersage in der christlichen Legende
Ludwig Conrady
1882German
Die Alt-Griechischen Schlangengottheiten
F. L. W. Schwartz
1858German
Die Argonatensage und Verwandtes
Reinhold Schröter
1899German
Die Augen meiner Ziege
Éric de Rosny
1999French
Die Auslegungen zu den Nachrichten von dem Gotte I-za-nagi
August Pfizmaier
1865German
Die Biene in der deutschen Volkssitte und -meinung
C. M. Blaas
1883German
Die Dietrichssage in ihrer geschichtlichen entwicklung
Karl Meyer
1868German
Die Edda
Friedrich Rühs
1812German
Die Eiche in alter und neuer Zeit
Paul Reinhold Wagler, Paul Wagler
1891German
Die Entwicklung der Tragödie bei den Griechen
Oskar Weissenfels
1891German
Die Fahrt nach der Robbeninsel
Martin Claudius
1800German
Die Faustsage und der religiös-sittliche Standpunkt in Goethes Faust
P. Tube
1869German
Die Florentiner Niobegruppe
Anton Mayerhoefer
1881German
Die Fronica
Karl Pearson
1887
Die Geburt der Athene
P. W. Forchhammer
1841German
Die Geschichte des Mâr ʻAbhdîsô und seines Jüngers Mâr Qardagh
Hermann Feige
1890German
Die Geschichte einer Seelenwanderung in Japan
Masamochi Ishikawa
1877German
Die Geschichte vom Faust in Reimen
J. Scheible, Karl Alexander Freiherr von Reichlin-Meldegg
1849German