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
Guilelmi Dittenbergeri Observationes de sacris Amphiarai Thebanis et Oropiis
Wilhelm Dittenberger
1889Latin
Gyōsai hyakki gadan
Gyōsai Kawanabe
1890Japanese
Götterlehre der Griechen und Römer
Karl Philipp Moritz, Max Oberbreyer
1878German
Gōtō Kujiki
Nobuyoshi Deguchi
1865Japanese
H.C. Andersen's Ausgewählte Märchen
Hans Christian Andersen, Julius Reuscher, Ludwig Richter, Oscar Pletsch
1874German
H.C. Andersen's Bilderbuch ohne Bilder
H. C. Andersen, Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué
1842German
H.C. Andersen's Historier
Hans Christian Andersen, Vilhelm Pedersen, Eduard Kretzschmar
1855Danish
Halländska sagor
August Bondeson
1880Swedish
Handbuch der germanischen Mythologie
Richard Hoyer
1895German
Handbuch der religion und mythologie der Griechen und Römer
H. W. Stoll
1864German
Hao pu
Chengxun Gao
1874Chinese
Harzsagen
Heinrich Pröhle
1854German
Hazañas y recuerdos de las catalanes
Antoni de Bofarull, Narciso Feliu de la Peña
1846Spanish
He hoikeholoholona na na kamalii
Sheldon Dibble
1835HAW
Hebreeuwsche vertellingen
Hyman Hurwitz
1828Dutch
Heinrich der Löwe
Brüder Rasch
1860German
Hellēnikēs mythologias kai historias ta kyriōtera en epitomē apo tōn archaiotatōn chronōn mechri tēs teleutēs Alexandrou tou Megalou
Virginia Stephanovik Skylitzē
1887Greek
Henrici Cornelii Agrippae ab Nettesheym a consiliis et archiuis Inditiaris sacrae Caesarae maiestatis de occulta philosophia libri tres
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
1533Latin
Heraclio reconhecido
Nicolau Luís
1826Portuguese
Hercule phallophore, dieu de la génération
Alexandre Colson
1882French
Hercules
Georg Stiernhielm
1658Swedish
Hercules Ethnicorum ex variis antiquitatum reliquiis delineatus
Lorenz Beger
1705Latin
Herculis quies et expiatio in eximio Farnesiano marmore expressa
Edoardo Corsini
1751Latin
Hermes der Windgott
Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher
1878German