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
Lecciones de mitologia azteca
F. Galindo Torres
1896Spanish
Legenda Sacti Gregorii Suecana
Ostman
1815Latin
Legenda aurea de Sanctis
Jacobus de Voragine, Mathias Huss
1486Latin
Legenda sanctoru[m ] que Lombardica historia dicitur characteribus optimis cuditur
Jacobus de Voragine
1516Latin
Legende
Alban Stolz
1894German
Legende der Heiligen
Joseph Jungnitz
1892German
Legende sanctorum
Jacobus de Voragine
1516Latin
Legende von den lieben Heiligen Gottes
Georg Ott
1868German
Legenden
Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten
1804German
Legenden der Heiligen auf alle Sonn- und Festtage des Jahres
János László Pyrker
1842German
Legendes arabes d'Espagne
René Basset
1898French
Legendy
Ignacy Hołowiński
1843Polish
Legendy
Michał Czajkowski
1885Polish
Leggenda di S. Silvestro Papa scritta in latino e volgarizzata nel buon secolo ora per la prima volta messa in pubblico secundo un codice propriodall'Ab. Luigi Razzolini
Jacobus de Voragine
1871Italian
Leggenda minore di s. Caterina da Siena e lettere dei suoi discepoli
Raymond of Capua, Tommaso Caffarini, Francesco Grottanelli, Stefano Maconi
1868Italian
Leggende Americane
José Güell y Renté
1859Italian
Leggende fantastiche popolari veneziane
Domenico Giuseppe Bernoni
1875Italian
Lehr-Sätze von der Atheisterey und dem Aberglauben mit gelehrten Anmerckungen erläutert, und zum Behueff seiner Auditorum in lateinischer Sprache heraus gegeben, wegen des daraus zu hoffenden Nutzens aber zu jedermanns Gebrauch ins Teutsche übersetzet durch Theognostum Eusebium
Joannes Franciscus Buddeus
1723German
Leonis Allatii De Ioanna papissa fabula commentatio
Leone Allacci
1630Latin
Les Cent nouvelles nouvelles
Thomas Wright
1858French
Les Contes du vieux Japon
Joseph Dautremer
1886French
Les Dieux de l'ancienne Rome, mythologie Romaine
Ludwig Preller
1866French
Les Illustres fées
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1825French
Les Mille & un jour
François Pétis de La Croix
1710French