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
Entstehung und Entwickelung der religiösen Kunst bei den Griechen
Eduard Doehler
1874German
Episodes uit Maerlant's Historie van Troyen naar het te wissen gevonden handschrift
Jacob van Maerlant
1873Dutch
Epistola Petri Castelli philosophi, ac medici romani ad condiscipvlos svos Ioannem et Aetium Cletvm viros doctissimos
Pietro Castelli
1622Latin
Epistola secvnda de Helleboro Petri Castelli philosophi, ac medici romani
Pietro Castelli
1622Latin
Epistolae Heroides Ouidii
Ovid, Hubertinus Clericus Crescentinas, Antonius Volscus, Domizio Calderino, de Tridino Joannes Tacuinus, Richard Ashhurst Bowie, Abbaye de Saint-Denis
1499Latin
Epitome historiae graecae
C. J. Ch Siret, Joseph de Jouvency
1822Latin
Epitomē Hellēnikēs mythologias
Kōnstantinos Kontogonēs
1837Greek
Epitre à mes dieux Penates
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis
1736French
Eratosthenis Catasterismi
Eratosthenes, Johann Konrad Schaubach
1795Ancient Greek
Ernesti Maass Commentatio mythographica
Ernst Maass
1886Latin
Erreurs populaires: touchant la medecine, & regime de santé
Laurent Joubert
1626French
Errori e pregiudizii volgari
Gustavo Strafforello
1883Italian
Erzählungen und Märchen
Rudolf Baumbach
1888German
Erzählungen
Johanna Neumann
1826German
Erzählungen
Karl Wilhelm Heinrich Hildebrandt
1824German
Erzählungen und Sagen
Agnes Franz
1825German
Erzählungen und mährchen
Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
1825German
Erzählungen und mährchen aus dem reiche des wunderbaren und schauerlichen
T. H. Friedrich
1819German
Es war Einmal
Rudolf Baumbach
1890German
Eskimoiske eventyr og sagn
H. Rink, Lars Møller, Jens Kreutzmann, R. Berthelsen
1866Danish
Esquisses d'histoire suisse
Pierre Vaucher
1882French
Essai d'interprétation d'un fragment en langue romane provençale
L. J. Hubaud
1858French
Essai d'un catalogue de la littérature épique de l'Irlande
H. d' Arbois de Jubainville
1883French
Essai d'un romancero forézien
Frédéric Noëlas
1865French