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
Iconologica deorum, oder, Abbildung der Götter
Joachim von Sandrart
1680German
Ideen zur Kunst-Mythologie
Karl August Böttiger
1826German
Idunna
N. F. S. Grundtvig
1810Danish
Idyllen, Volkssagen, Legenden und Erzählungen aus der Schweiz
Johann Rudolf Wyss
1815German
Ielele
Lazar Șăineanu
1886Romanian
Iets over de schedelvereering bij de volken van den Indischen archipel
George Alexander Wilken
1889Dutch
Ifigenia in Aulide
Ferdinando Bertoni
1762Italian
Il Vespro siciliano nelle tradizioni popolari della Sicilia
Giuseppe Pitrè
1882Italian
Il flavio intorno a i fasti volgari
Vincenzo Cartari, Gualtiero Scoto
1553Italian
Il sagrifizio d'Ifigenia in Aulide
Domenico Magni
1810Italian
Il tesoro di Brunetto Latini versificato
Alessandro D'Ancona, Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze, Bibliothèque nationale
1888Italian
Il venerdì nelle tradizioni popolari italiane
Giuseppe Pitrè
1888Italian
Il volgo di Roma
Francesco Sabatini
1890Italian
Iliade d'Omero
Όμηρος
1723Italian
Iliakan
Homer, Arsēn Komitas Bagratuni
1864Armenian
Ilifa labobaba
P. N. Mnkandla
1970NIC
Ilithyia oder die Hexe
Karl August Böttiger
1799German
Illustratur etiam particula symbolorum veterunt de christo EX Maria virgine nato
Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch
1778Latin
Illustrirtes Taschenwörterbuch der Mythologie aller Völker
Johannes Minckwitz
1888German
Ilīada Gomera
Όμηρος
1896Russian
Im Lande des Fetischs
Heinrich Bohner
1890German
Imagines deorum
Vincenzo Cartari
1581Latin
Imagini delli dei de gl'antichi di Vicenzo Cartari Reggiano
Vincenzo Cartari, Lorenzo Pignoria, Cesare Malfatti
1674Italian
Imcomincia ellibro chiamato Gieta & Birria
Ghigo Brunelleschi
1477Italian