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
In lo nome dela sãcta trinitade
Martha Saint, Bernardinus Benalius, Matteo Capcasa, Walter Ashburner
1491Latin
- Read free
In the Misty Realm of Fable
Emma Robinson Kleckner
1900
- Read free
In the Reign of Coyote: Folklore from the Pacific Coast
Katherine Chandler
1905
Incipit lege[n]da s[an]c[t]oru[m] aurea, q[uae] alio nomi[n]e dicitur historia longobardica
Jacobus de Voragine, Conrad Winters, H. G, E. Crawshaw, Germany) Carthusians (Dülmen, Germany) Carthusians (Wedderen
1480Latin
Incipit lege[n]da sanctoru[m] q[ue] Lombardica nominat[ur] historia
Jacobus de Voragine
1496Latin
Incipit liber gestoru[m] barlaam et iosophat seruoru[m] dei greco sermone
Saint John of Damascus, Heinrich Eggestein, Germany) Augustinians (Mindelheim, Germany) Jesuits (Mindelheim
1474Latin
Incipit prologus in legendas sancto[rum]
Jacobus de Voragine, Anton Koberger, Kloster Reichenbach
1478Latin
Incipit prologus in legendas sanctorum
Jacobus de Voragine, Anton Koberger, Richard Ashhurst Bowie
1482Latin
Incipit prologus super lege[n]da sanctorum quam compilauit frater Jacobus natione Janue[n]sis ordinis fratrum p[re]dicatorum
Jacobus de Voragine
1476Latin
Incipit tabula super legendas sanctorum s[e]c[undu]m ordinem alphabeti collecta, et [pri]mo [pre]mitti[tur] [pro]logus
Jacobus de Voragine
1483Latin
Incipit tabula super legendas sanctorum s[e]c[undu]m ordinem alphabeti collecta, et primo premittitur prologus
Jacobus de Voragine
1482Latin
Incolarum alterius mundi phaenomena historica
Johann Bissel
1682German
Incomincia el primo libro de la historia de Merlino
Zorzi
1480Italian
Indi︠e︡ĭskīi︠a︡ skazki i legendy sobrannyi︠a︡ v Kamaoni︠e︡ v 1875 g.
I. P. Minaev
1877Russian
Ino Leukothea antike Bronze von Neuwied
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl
1864German
Insignia Turcica ex variis superstitionum tenebris Orientalium maxime populorum, gemina disquisitione academica, in illustri Salana
Paul Pater
1710Latin
Instructions et questionnaires
Paul Sébillot
1887French
Insunt Acta m. Anastasii Persae
Saint Anastasius the Persian, Hermann Usener
1894Ancient Greek
Interpretationum hexada alteram
Friedrich Marx
1890Latin
Introductio ad sacram historam Bohemiae
Karel Kriz, Wilhelm Etzweiler
1764Latin
Inventio Sanctae Crvcis
Alfred Holder
1889Latin
Io. Samuel Schmidii commentatio epistolica de alrunis germanorum ... qua de feminis et imagunculis sacris disseritur, accedit ecloga antiquaria de imaginibus, aedium ornamentis
Johannes Samuel Schmid
1739Latin
Ioan. Francisci Buddei Theses theologicae de atheismo et superstitione
Joannes Franciscus Buddeus
1737Latin
Ioannis Bocatii Peri genealogias deorvm, libri qvindecim, cum annotationibus Iacobi Micylli
Giovanni Boccaccio, Jakob Moltzer
1532Latin