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
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Beitra ge zur Kenntnis des altfranzo sischen Volkslebens
Peter Pfeffer, Pfeffer, Peter. Kenntnis des altfranzösischen Volkslebens
1898German
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Betalpanchabinshati
Īśvaracandra Bidyāsāgara
1868Bengali
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Bo yi ji
Huan'gu Zheng
1796Chinese
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Contes tjames
Antony Charles Céléstin Landes
1887French
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Cyprian von Antiochien und die deutsche Faustsage
Theodor Zahn
1882German
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Das Wunderb©ơchlein, oder, Nachrichten von blauen Feuern, Irrwischen, Blut-Schwefel und Froschregen, Todespropheten, Kometen, W©ơnschelruthen und andern merkw©ơrdigen Dingen
Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature
1806German
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Die geschichtlichen deutschen sagen aus dem munde des volks und deutscher dichter
Karl Joseph Simrock, Alexander Kaufmann
1850German
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Drevni︠a︡i︠a︡ religīi︠a︡ slavi︠a︡n
G. A. Glinka, Glinka, Grigoriĭ Andreevich
1804Russian
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Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity
Samuel Sharpe
1863
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Euripidis Hippolytus coronifer ...
Euripides
1813Greek
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Euripidis fragmenta duo Phaethontis e cod. Claromontano ...
Gottfried Hermann
1812Latin
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Exercitatio de principibus diis artis medicae tutelaribus apud veteres Graecos atque Romanos
Karl Friedrich Hundertmark
1735Latin
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Grundz©ơge der griechischen und r©œmischen Fabelgeschichte
Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Harold Jantz Collection NcD
1787German
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Kadmus
Friedrich Carl Ludwig Sickler, Friedrich Sickler
1818German
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L'enfer des peuples anciens
Antoine François Delandine
1784French
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La botanique historique et littéraire ... suivie d'une nouvelle intitulée
comtesse de Genlis Stéphanie Félicité, Stéphanie Félicité Genlis
1810French
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La religion des Gaulois
Jacques Martin
1727French
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Légendes et traditions du Rhin de Bâle à Rotterdam
F. J. Kiefer
1872German
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Norske folke-eventyr
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Moe. J. E, Moltke Moe, 1812-1885, George Webbe Dasent
1852
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Oberschlesien wie es in der sagenwelt erscheint
Karl Wunster
1825German
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Om nordboernes gudedyrkelse og gudetro i hedenold
Henry Petersen
1876Danish
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Philoctetes, graece
Sophocles, Ph. Buttmann
1822Ancient Greek
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Quatre lettres sur le Mexique
Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
1868French
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Runa, antiquarisk tidskrift
Richard Dybeck
1845Swedish