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
Essai de questionnaire pour servir a recueillir les traditions, les coutumes, et les légends populaires
Paul Sébillot
1880French
Essai sur la mythologie du nord ...
F. G. Eichhoff
1851French
Essai sur les légendes pieuses du moyen-âge, ou examen de ce qu'elles renferment de merveilleux, d'après les connaissances que fournissent de mos jours l'archéologie, la théologie, la philosophie et la physiologie médicale
L.-F.-Alfred Maury
1843French
Et Hundrede gamle danske folkesagn og fortællinger fra fædrelandets forskjellige egne
M. Rasmussen
1855Danish
Ethica symbolica e fabularum umbris in veritatis lucem
Michael Pexenfelder
1675Latin
Ethnographie Nordost-Afrikas ...
Philipp Paulitschke
1893German
Ethnogénie causasienne: recherches sur la formation et le lieu d'origine des peuples éthiopiens, chaldéens, syriens, hindous, perses, hébreux, grecs, celtes, arabes, etc
A.-C Moreau de Jonnès
1861French
Ett forn-svenskt legendarium, innehållande medeltids kloster-sagor om helgon
Petrus de Dacia, George Stephens, Jacobus de Voragine
1847Swedish
Euripides Iphigenia in Aulide
Euripides
1837Ancient Greek
Euripides poeta, tragicoru[m] princeps, in Latinum sermonem conuersus, adiecto eregionè textu Graeco
Euripides
1562Ancient Greek
Euripidis Cyclops
Euripides
1838Latin
Euripidis Hercules furens
Euripides, Gottfried Hermann
1810Ancient Greek
Euripidis Ion
Euripides
1827Ancient Greek
Euripidis tragoediae fragmenta epistolae
Euripides
1778Latin
Euripidou Ēlektra =
Euripides
1893Ancient Greek
Euripidou Hippolytos stephanēphoros
Euripides, James Henry Monk
1813Ancient Greek
Eventyr
H. C. Andersen, Vilhelm Pedersen
1850Danish
Eventyr og sagn fra Ungarn
Hans Haagen Nyegaard
1851Danish
Eventyrbog for børn
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Moltke Moe
1883Danish
Everriculum fermenti veteris, seu Residuae in Danico orbe cum paganismi tum papismi reliquiae
Erich Pontoppidan
1736Latin
Evreĭ, korol' pol'skiĭ
S. A. Bershadskīĭ
1889Russian
Evripidis Tragoediae fragmenta epistolae
Euripides
1778Greek
Excerpta ex scriptis Publii Ovidii Nasonis
Ovid
1835Latin
Explicit lombardica hystoria sanctoru[m]
Jacobus de Voragine, Heinrich Eggestein, John Eliot Hodgkin
1472Latin