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
Klänge aus der Vorzeit
Karl Rolfus
1873German
Kokon chomonjū̄
Narisue Tachibana
1690Japanese
Kokon yōmikō
Atsutane Hirata
1831Japanese
Kol agadot Yiśraʾel
I. B. Levner
1839Hebrew
Konek-gorbunok i muzhichek s nogotok
Vasiliĭ F. Potapov
1852Russian
Kort nordisk gudelære og oversættelse af vedkommende dele af Eddaerne
E. Jessen
1867Danish
Koshi seibun
Atsutane Hirata
1823Japanese
Koshichō
Atsutane Hirata
1819Japanese
Koshiden
Atsutane Hirata
1843Japanese
Koszorúk az Alföld vad virágaiból
Lajos Kálmány
1877Hungarian
Kratka mitologīi͡a, koi͡a-to sŭdrʹzhava basnoslovīe-to na Grʹt͡sy-ty i na Rimli͡any-ty s edin pogli͡ad vrʹkhu basnoslovny-ty vi͡ervanīi͡a u indii͡any-ty, Persy-ty, Egypti͡any-ty, Skandinavt͡sy-ty i u Gally-ty
E. Geruzez, A. G. Nachev
1873Bulgarian
Kreüter Bůch
Hieronymus Bock
1546German
Kriemhild
Wilhelm Cramer
1897German
Kroniki trzech zakonʹow
Bishop of Porto Marcos de Lisboa
1889Polish
Kronologiske bemærkninger om Olaf Tryggvasons regeringshistorie
Björn Magnússon Ólsen
1878Danish
Kronos und Zeus
Emanuel Hoffmann
1876German
Kulturbilder ur Finlands historie
Rafaël Hertzberg
1885Swedish
Kulturstudien aus drei jahrhunderten
Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl
1896German
Kunst und literatur
A. Frantz
1888German
Kwan Yin
Henri Borel
1897Dutch
Kytice z moravských pověstí
M. Vrána
1878Czech
König Atlas im Hesperidenmythos
Eduard Gerhard
1841German
König Dietrich von Bern und seine Genossen
Ernst Martin
1867German
L' Algérie légendaire
C. Trumelet
1892French