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
Ioannis Pierii Valeriani Bellunensis, Hieroglyphica
Pierio Valeriano
1604Latin
Ioannis Pierii Valeriani Bellunensis, Hieroglyphica, seu, De sacris AEgyptiorum aliarumque gentium literis commentarii
Pierio Valeriano
1602Latin
Ioannis Pierij Valeriani Bellunensis Hieroglyphica, seu, de sacris Aegyptiorum, aliarʹumque gentium literis commentarij
Pierio Valeriano
1626French
Ioannis Seldeni I.C. De dIs Syris syntagmata II
John Selden, William Stansby
1617Latin
Iphigeneia en Tauridi
N. A. Soutzos
1837Greek
Iphigenia auf Tauris
Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck
1856German
Iphigenie en Tauride
Henri Desmarets
1734French
Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch
Ernst Windisch
1880German
Irmenstrasse und irmensäule
Jacob Grimm
1815German
Is Atlinga
Johan Göransson
1747Swedish
Islandske folkesagn efter Arnason, Maurer og fleere
G. A. Krohg, Jón Árnason, Konrad von Maurer
1863Danish
Islandske folkesagn æventyr
Magnús Grímsson, Jón Árnason, Carl Christian Thorwald Andersen, Grímsson, Carl Andersen
1877Danish
Israëlitische Galerij
L. Goudsmit
1853Dutch
Istoria del cielo considerato secondo le idee de' poeti, de filosofi, e di Mosé
Noël Antoine Pluche
1747Italian
Iusti LipsI Diva Sichemiensis sive Aspricollis
Justus Lipsius
1606Latin
Iz narodnoĭ literatury
I︠U︡. A. I︠A︡vorskīĭ
1899Russian
Iz russkoĭ zhizni i prirody
Elizaveta Nikolaevna Vodovozova
1875Russian
Izsli︠e︡dovanīi︠a︡ i statʹi N.O. Ėmina po armi︠a︡nskoĭ miḟologīi, arkheologīi, istorīi i istorīi literatury (za 1858-1884 gg.).
N. O. Ėmin
1896Russian
Izsli︠e︡dovanīi︠a︡ o i︠a︡zycheskom bogosluzhenīi drevnikh slavi︠a︡n
I. I. Sreznevskiĭ
1848Russian
I︠A︡zycheskīĭ kult́ voti︠a︡kov
Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Blinov
1898Russian
I︠U︡zhno-slavi︠a︡nskīi︠a︡ skazanīi︠a︡ o Kralevichi︠e︡ Marki︠e︡ v svi︠a︡ s proizvedenīi︠a︡mi russkago bylevogo ėposa
M. G. Khalanskīĭ
1893Russian
Japanesiska studier och skizzer
Konni Zilliacus
1896Swedish
Japon neuchâtelois
Georges Jeanneret
1893French
Jason in Kolchis
H. Heydemann
1886German