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
Finska toner
Rafaël Hertzberg
1873Swedish
Fjórar riddarasögur
H. Erlendsson
1852Icelandic
Flere Oplysninger i Anledning af det i Maanedsskriftet for Literatur gjorte Angreb paa Professor Rafn
Thaarup
1831Danish
Flora mythologica oder Pfanzenkunde in Bezug auf Mythologie und Symbolik der Griechen und Römer
Johann Heinrich Dierbach
1833German
Flore des dames
Albert Jacquemart
1841French
Flore saharienne
Isā ibn al-Samātī al-Jallāli, ʻĪsá ibn al-Samātī al-Jallālī
1879French
Flore saharienne
ʻĪsā ibn al-Samātī al-Fallālī
1819French
Flos Sanctorum
Jacobus de Voragine
1472Spanish
Flos unde Blankflos
Stephan Waetzold, Stephan Waetzoldt, Giacomo Meyerbeer
1880GEM
Folk-lore españolas
Antonio Machado y Alvarez
1883Spanish
Folke-eventyr
Nils Gabriel friherre Djurklou
1887Norwegian
Folke-eventyr, uppskrivne i Sandeherad
Kristofer Janson, Moltke Moe
1878Norwegian
Folkeminder fra Hanved Sogn ved Flensborg
Jens Madsen
1870Danish
Folkesagn
Johan Theodor Nilssen Storaker, Ole Glambeksen Fuglestvedt, J. M. Osmundsen
1881Norwegian
Folklor Jepang
James Danandjaja
1997Indonesian
Folklore brasiliano
Vincenzo Grossi
1891Italian
Folklore de Constantinople
Henry Carnoy, Jean Nicolaïdes
1894French
Folklore in England und Amerika
Clemens Klöpper
1899German
Folkloristische Streifzüge ...
Karl Knortz
1899German
Folksagor och äfventyr upptecknade från folkmunnen ...
Sven Grundtvig
1879Swedish
Folksagor och äventyr
Sven Grundtvig
1879Swedish
Fonti vediche dell'epopea
Angelo De Gubernatis
1867Italian
Foreløbigt Svar
Baldvin Einarsson
1831Danish
Fornaldarsögur Norðrlanda
Valdimar Ásmundarson
1885Icelandic