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
Gamla segner fraa Valdres
Andris Eivindson Vang, J. E. Nielsen
1871Norwegian
Gamle sagn om Hjartdølerne
M. B. Landstad
1880Norwegian
Ganj-i Puṣhto
Aḥmad Tangī
1893PUS
Gayant, le géant de Douai
Quenson
1839French
Genealogiae
Giovanni Boccaccio, Bonetto Locatelli, Ottaviano Scotto
1494Latin
Genealogiae deorum gentililium Ioannis Boccatii de Certaldo ad Vgonem inclytum Hierusalem & Cypri regem
Giovanni Boccaccio, Simon Bevilaqua, William C. Hollands, William Tinker Hollands
1487Latin
Genealogie Johannis Boccacij cum micantissimis arborum effigiationibus cuiusq [] gentilis dei progeniem
Giovanni Boccaccio
1511Latin
Genealogie Johannis Boccacij cum micantissimis arborum efligiationibus cumsqvm gentilis dei progenem / non tam aperte q summatim declarantibus cumq preęfoecunda oīm que in hoc libro sunt ad finē tabula
Giovanni Boccaccio
1511Latin
Genos Apollônioy toy poietoy tôn argonautichôn
Apollonius Rhodius, Lucillus of Tarrha, Sophocles, Theon of Alexandria, Joannes Baptista Lascaris Guarini, Franciscus de Alopa Laurentius, Richard Mead, Albert May Todd, Theodoros Phrearsos Falonburgus, Augustus Arthur Van Sittart
1496Greek
George Smith's Chaldäische Genesis
George Smith
1876German
Georgens' Mutter-büchlein
Jan Daniel Georgens
1883German
Georgii d'Arnaud de diis paredrois
George d' Arnaud
1732Ancient Greek
German popular tales
Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]
1890
Germanische Göttersage
Ernst Bratuscheck
1869German
Germanische Mythologie
Eugen Mogk
1898German
Germanorvm proverbii de fideli eccardo
Philipp Brossgebauer
1690Latin
Geschichte der deutschen Volkspoesie
Otto Weddigen
1884German
Geschichte der deutschen volksdichtung seit dem ausgange des mittelalters bis auf die gegenwart
Otto Weddigen
1895German
Geschichte von den sieben Schwaben
G. D. Marbach
1838German
Geschichten und lieder der Afrikaner
A. Seidel
1896German
Geschichten, Mährchen und Sagen
Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
1823German
Geschichten, Sagen und Märchen
Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
1824German
Gesta Romanorum
Johann Georg Theodor Grässe
1842German
Gesta Romanorum cu[m] applicatio[n]ib[us] moralisatis ac misticis
Anton Koberger
1494Latin