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
Kachikachiyama
Sazanami Iwaya
1895Japanese
Kad će biti kiše?
Steva Milovanov
1888Serbian
Kaii bendan
Joken Nishikawa
1715Japanese
Kaikoku Nihon no tanjō
Yoneo Okada
1876Japanese
Kaiser Friedrich im Kniffhäuser
Hans Ferdinand Massmann
1850German
Kaladlit okalluktualliait
R. Berthelsen
1859KAL
Kalewipoeg
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Carl Reinthal
1861German
Kalmyt︠s︡kīi︠a︡ narodnyi︠a︡ skazki
Alekseĭ Matveevich Pozdneev
1886TUT
Kami to mononoke
Kunihiro Shimura, 志村有弘
1999Japanese
Kamiyo no masagoto tokiwagusa
Tominobu Hosoda
1827Japanese
Kappa, suiko kōryaku
Tanshū Kurimoto
1830Japanese
Karl Heinrich Heydenreichs psychologische Entwickelung des Aberglaubens und der damit verknüpften Schwärmerey. --
Karl Heinrich Heydenreich
1798German
Katechismus der Mythologie aller Culturvölker
Johannes Minckwitz
1880German
Katha sarit sagara
Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara Bhaṭṭācāryya
1839Multiple languages
Kathā manjarī, or Bunch of stories
John Garrett
1866KAN
Keiko yōryaku
Yoshihisa Midorikawa
1856Japanese
Kennslubók i goďafræ ďi Grikkja of Rómverja
H. W. Stoll
1871German
Kisah legenda Sang Kancil
Gamal Komandoko
2003Indonesian
Kitāb waqāʾiʻ Tilīmāk
Shāhīn ʻAtiyah
1885Arabic
Kladoiskanīe i predanīi︠a︡ o kladakh v Zapadnoĭ Sibiri
Kuznet͡sov-Tobolʹskīĭ
1896Russian
Kleine Beiträge zur deutschen Mythologie, Sitten- und Heimatskunde in Sagen und Gebräuchen aus Thüringen
August Witzchel
1866German
Kleine doch curieuse und vermehrte Bauren-Physic
Franz Christian Paullini
1705German
Kleinere Schriften von Reinhold Köhler
Reinhold Köhler
1898German
Kleinere lateinische Denkmäler der Thiersage aus dem zwölften bis vierzehnten Jahrhundert
Ernst Voigt
1878German