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
Historie des Himmels
Noël Antoine Pluche
1764German
Historie van den vromen ridder Iason
Raoul Lefèvre
1485Dutch
Historiegubbar på Dal
August Bondeson
1886Swedish
Historien om de ti Vezirer og hvorledes det gik dem med Kong Azád Bachts Søn
Rasmus Rask
1829Danish
Historier
Hans Christian Andersen
1852Danish
Historische warhaffte und eigentliche beschreibung von der alten vnnd in aller welt berühmpten statt Troia
Guido delle Colonne, David Förter, Benoît de Sainte-More
1599German
Historiæ poeticæ scriptores antiqui
Apollodorus of Athens, Thomas Gale
1675Ancient Greek
Historya trojańska, 1563
Guido dello Colonne
1896Polish
Hnutʻiwnkʻ Aknay
H. K. Chanikian
1895Armenian
Hollandse vrijheid verdadigt tegen de usurpatie der stadhouders zijnde een verhaal van de schendige handelingen der zelver, tegen de beste en vroomste voorstanders der geseide vrijheid, in een 't zamenspraak van drie personen, varende van Leiden op Haarlem
H. van V
1663Dutch
Homer's Odyssey, books I-XII
Όμηρος
1870Ancient Greek
Homer's Odyssey, books XXI-XXIV the triumph of Odysseus
Όμηρος
1883Ancient Greek
Homeri Carmina recensuit et selecta lectionis varietate instruxit Arthurus Ludwich ..
Όμηρος
1889Latin
Homeri Iliados pictvræ aniqvæ ex codice mediolanensi Bibliothecæ Ambrosianæ
Όμηρος
1835Latin
Homeri Ilias
Homer
1869Ancient Greek
Homeri Ilias Latinis versibus expressa
Raimondo Cunich
1776Latin
Homeri Odyssea
Όμηρος
1806Ancient Greek
Homeri Odyssea et carmina minora
Homer, F. A. Wolf, Gottfried Hermann
1827Ancient Greek
Homeri des aller hoch berümbsten und griechischen Poeten Odissea
Όμηρος
1570German
Homerische untersuchungen
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
1884German
Homērou Odysseia
Όμηρος
1547Ancient Greek
Homērou epē
Homer, F. A. Wolf
1817Ancient Greek
Honchō kaidan koji
Shunʼō
1716Japanese
Hortvs philosophicvs consitvs stvdio
Martin Mylius
1597Latin