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 livre des miracles de Notre-Dame de Chartres
Jean le Marchant
1855French
Le livre mignard, ou, La fleur des fabliaux
Charles Malo
1800French
Le magasin des fées de Perrault, de Mme Leprince de Baumont, de Fénélon et de Mme d'Aulnoy
Charles Perrault
1852French
Le magicien & son valet
François-Marie Luzel
1885French
Le maitre chat, ou, Le chat botté
Charles Perrault
1800French
Le mythe de Votan
Hyacinthe comte de Charencey
1871French
Le mythe de la mère Lusine (Meurlusine, Merlusine, Mellusigne, Mellusine, Mélusine, Méleusine)
Léo Desaivre
1883French
Le nain jaune
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1878French
Le nozze di Paride ed Elena rappresentate in un vaso antico del museo del signor Tommaso Jenkins ...
Orazio Orlandi
1775Italian
Le origini di Dracula
Sara Alice Manis
2022Italian
Le petit chaperon rouge
Frédéric Dupetit-Méré
1818French
Le père Gigogne, contes pour les enfants
Alexandre Dumas
1860French
Le pitture di un antico vaso fittile trovato nella Magna Grecia ed appartenente a sua altezza il signor principe Stanislao Poniatowsk
Ennio Quirino Visconti
1784Italian
Le poèm chaldéen du déluge
J. Oppert
1885Akkadian
Le recueil des histoires troiennes contenans troys liures
Raoul Lefèvre
1494FRM
Le recueil des hystoires troyennes contenant troys liures
Raoul Lefèvre
1494FRM
Le sage Heycar
Ḥayqar al-Ḥakīm
1824French
Le strighe
Domenico Giuseppe Bernoni
1874Italian
Le tableau des riches inventions couuertes du voile des feintes amoureuses, qui sont representees dans le songe de Poliphile
Francesco Colonna
1600French
Le temple des Muses
Michel de Marolles, Bernard Picart
1733French
Le theatre de l'idolatrie, ou, La porte ouverte, pour parvenir à la cognoissance du paganisme caché, et la vraye representation de la vie, des mœurs, de la religion, & du service divin des Bramines, qui demeurent sur les costes de Chormandel, & aux pays circonvoisins
Abraham Rogerius, Thomas La Grue
1670French
Le traité du Narcisse (théorie du symbole)
André Gide, Pierre Louÿs
1891French
Leabhar sgeulaigheachta
Douglas Hyde
1889Irish
Leabhar sgeulaigheachta cruinnighthe agus curtha le chéile le Dúbhghlas de h-íde
Douglas Hyde
1889Irish