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
La rapresentatione di santo Valentino, & di santa Giuliana, e altri martiri
Antonio Benriscevuti
1554Italian
La sphere de la lune
B**** Mademoiselle de
1652French
La storia della gverra di Troia
Guido delle Colonne, Benoît de Sainte-More
1665Italian
La tia Marizapalos
Manual de Marques D' Cerralbo Aguilera y Ligues
1840Spanish
La tradition en Poitou et Charentes
Société d'ethnographie nationale et d'art populaire
1897French
La tyrannie des fées detruite, ou, L'origine de la machine de Marli
Louise de Bossigny Comtesse d' Auneuil
1756French
La verité des science, contre les septiques [!] ou Pyrrhoniens ...
Marin Mersenne
1625French
La vertv enseignee par les oiseaux
Alard Leroy
1653French
La vida de Sant Honorat
Raymond Féraud, A. L. Sardou, sciences et arts des Alpes-Maritimes Société des lettres
1875French
La vida de Sant Honorat (la vie de Saint Honorat) légende en vers provençaux du XIIIe siècle
Raimon Féraut, Antoine Léander Sardon
1858French
La vie et la légende de Madame sainte Notburg
A. de Beauchesne
1868French
La vita et Metamorfoseo d'Ouidio
Gabriele Simeoni
1584Italian
La vérité des fables, ou, L'histoire des dieux de l'antiquité
Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
1648French
La ʻNavigatio Sancti Brendani'
Francesco Novati
1896Italian
Lagographia
Wolfgang Waldung
1619Latin
Lappiske eventyr og folkesagn
J. Qvigstad
1887Norwegian
Las noches del Albaicín
Antonio Joaquín Afán de Ribera
1885Spanish
Laxdaela saga
Valdimar Ásmundarson
1895Icelandic
Le // imagini de // i
Vincenzo Cartari, Stephanus Michael, Joshua Sir Reynolds
1581Italian
Le Bassin de Neptune à Versailles
Alfred Leclerc
1899French
Le Cabinet des fées, ou, Collection des contes des fées, et autres contes merveilleux
Charles-Joseph Mayer
1787French
Le Djebel Nefousa
Ibrahim ibn Suleiman Shammakhi, Gustave-Adolphe de Calassanti Motylinski
1885French
Le Petit Poucet et la Grande Ourse
Gaston Paris
1875French
Le Prince Lutin
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1820French