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
L. Annaei Senecae Tragoediae cum notis integris Johannis Frederici Gronovii
Seneca the Younger, Joannes Fredericus Gronovius, Johann Caspar Schröder
1728Latin
L. Meijers Ghulde vlies
Lodewijk Meijer
1668Dutch
La 'Navigatio Sancti Brendani' in antico veneziano
Francesco Novati
1892Italian
La Barbe Bleue
Charles Perrault
1820French
La Danae
Baldassare Tacconi
1888Italian
La Eneida en la República Argentina
Publius Vergilius Maro
1888Spanish
La Leggenda della Cintola di Maria Vergine
Cesare Guasti
1861Italian
La Leyenda de las plantas
Carlos Mendoza
1880Spanish
La Mythologie comparée avec l'histoire
Tressan l'abbé de
1810French
La Normandie romanesque et merveilleuse
Amélie Bosquet
1845French
- Read free
La Serĉado por la Ora Ŝaflano
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1906
La Tebaide di Stazio
P. Papinius Statius
1729Italian
La Vlyxea de Homero
Homer, Gonzalo Pérez, Francesco Rampazetto, Edward Glaser
1562Spanish
La belle aux cheveux d'or
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1820French
La biche au bois
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1820French
La bonne petite souris
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1820French
La bouillie de la comtesse Berthe
Alexandre Dumas, Bertall
1845French
La chatte blanche
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1820French
La châsse de Saint-Taurin premier évêque d'Evreux
L.-T Corde
1866French
La confrérie des chasseurs Malinké et Bambara
Youssouf Tata Cissé
1994BAM
La contagion sacrée, ou, Histoire naturelle de la superstition
Paul Henri Thiry baron d'Holbach
1797French
La fascination de Gulfi
Frédéric Guillaume Bergmann
1871French
La favola di Psiche
Maestro del Dado
1770Italian
La grande terre de l'Ouest dans les documents celtiques du moyenâge
E. Beauvois
1882French