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
Extracts from Idyllen
Salomon Gessner, Charles Sumner, Anne-Robert-Jacques baron de l'Aulne Turgot, Ovid
1780French
Extrait mythlogique
Adele Labruère
1821French
Eyn gar loblich ... Cronica sagend von eynem heyligen Kunig mit Namen Josaphat, wie der ward bekeret von eynem heyligen Vatter vnnd Aynsideln genant Barlaam
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection
1476German
Ezeregy éjszaka
Antoine Galland
1884Hungarian
Ezu hyakki yagyō
Sekien Toriyama
1777Japanese
Études de mythologie celtique
Jules Leflocq
1869French
Études de mythologie et d'archéologie grecques d'Athène à Argos
Alexandre Louis Joseph Bertrand
1858French
Ēsiodou tou Askraiou Erga kai ēmerai ; Theogonia ; Aspis Ērakleous
Hesiod
1537Ancient Greek
Fabeln und Erzählungen
Johann Adolf Schlegel
1769German
Fables sénégalaises
Jacques François Baron Roger
1828French
Fabula de Psyche et Cupidine
Børge Thorlacius
1802Latin
Fabulae
Euripides
1898Ancient Greek
Fabvla dos planetas, moralizada
Bartholomeu Pacham, Domingos Lopes Rosa, Edward Glaser
1643Portuguese
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Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
1916
Familielivet på Island i dēn første sagaperiode (indtil 1030) ...
Kr Kålund
1870Danish
Farīdat al-Maghrib
Antonio Bresciani
1874Arabic
Fausts Leben, von Georg Rudolf Widmann
Georg Rudolf Widmann
1880German
Favole bolognesi
Carolina Coronedi Berti
1883Italian
Festas e tradic̜ões populares do Brasil
Alexandre José de Mello Moraes Filho
1895Portuguese
Fiabe popolari veneziane
Domenico Giuseppe Bernoni
1893Italian
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Fifty Indian Legends: Stories of Curious Ways in Indian Days
Laura Rountree Smith
1924
Filosofia secreta, donde debaxo de historias fabvlosas
Juan Pérez de Moya, Andrés Sánchez de Ezpeleta, Juan Ramírez, Edward Glaser
1611Spanish
Finländska bidrag till svensk språk-och folklifsforskning, utgifna af Svenska landsmålsföreningen i Helsingfors
Helsingfors Svenska landsmålsföreningen
1894Swedish
Finnische märchen
Eero Salmelainen, Emmy Mme Schreck, Gustav Meyer
1887German