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
Le Prince des Aigues Marines
Louise Cavelier Lévesque
1744French
Le Prince des Aigues Marines et Le prince invisible, contes
Louise Cavelier Lévesque
1744French
Le Thyeste de Monsieur de Monleon
Monléon Monsieur de
1638French
Le XIII piaceuoli notti del S. Gio. Francesco Straparola di Carauaggio diuise in due libri
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
1580Italian
Le bestiaire divin de Guillaume, clerc de Normandie, trouvère du XIIIe. siècle
Guillaume le Clerc de Normandie
1852French
Le celebratissime statue rappresentanti la favola di Niobe ...
C. R. Cockerell
1816Italian
Le chien qui hurle
Teste d'Ouet
1847French
Le choix d'Alcide
H. F. M. Langlé
1811French
Le ciento nouelle antike
Carlo Gualteruzzi, Adriana R. Salem
1550Italian
Le conte
Eugène Jean Baptiste Louis Joseph Lefébure
1885French
Le développement de la légende d'Œdipe dans l'histoire de la littérature
Edouard Rod
1879French
Le diable en Champagne
Alexandre Assier
1869French
Le festin de pierre, ov Le fils criminel
Claude Deschamps sieur de Villiers, Onofrio Giliberto
1660French
Le folk-lore du pays Basque
Julien Vinson
1883French
Le folklore au pays Wallon
Jules Lemoine
1892French
Le folklore dans les deux mondes
Hyacinthe Comte de Charencey
1894French
Le folklore wallon
Eugène Monseur
1892French
Le foyer breton, contes et récits populaires
Émile Souvestre
1874French
Le grillon
Caliste de Langle
1860French
Le imagini d[e i dei] de gli an[tichi]
Vincenzo Cartari
1580Italian
Le imagini de i dei de gli antichi, nelle qvali si contengono gl'idoli, i riti, le cerimonie, & altre cose appartenentialla religione de gli antichi, raccoltte dal sig
Vincenzo Cartari
1587Italian
Le imagini de i dei de gli antichi, nelle qvali si contengono gl'idoli, riti, ceremonie, & altre cose appartenenti alla religione de gli antichi
Vincenzo Cartari
1571Latin
Le labarum
Jean-Paul Desroches
1894French
Le leggende del Trentino
Nepomuceno Bolognini
1884Italian