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
Literatura populară română
Moses Gaster
1883Romanian
Literaturnoe nasli͡e︡dīe
N. I. Kostomarov
1890Russian
Litteratura populara
I. C. Fundescu
1875Romanian
Littérature orale de l'Auvergne
Paul Sébillot
1898French
Littérature orale de le Haute-Bretagne
Paul Sébillot
1881French
Livre de têtes antiques
Pierre-Alexandre Aveline
1754French
Livre mignard, ou, La fleur des fabliaux
Charles Malo
1825French
Liḳuṭim niflaʾim
Dov Aryeh Friedman
1889Yiddish
Li︠e︡topisi russkoĭ literatury i drevnosti
N. S. Tikhonravov
1859Russian
Lo rondallayre
Francesc Maspons i Labrós
1871Spanish
Logos eisitērios eis to mathēma tēs hellēnikēs mythologias
Nikolaos G. Politēs
1882Greek
Lombardica historia
Jacobus de Voragine, Johann Otmar, Michael Greyff, Johannes Muranius, Martin Gerter, Johann Blessing, Jakob Röchlin, A. F, Richard Ashhurst Bowie
1485Latin
Lombardica historia que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda s[an]ctoru[m] appellatur
Jacobus de Voragine, Georg Husner, E. Crawshaw
1492Latin
Lombardica historia que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda sa[n]ctorum appelatur
Jacobus de Voragine
1489Latin
Lombardica historia que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda sa[n]ctorum appellatur
Jacobus de Voragine, Georg Husner, Claus Ulrich, Jacques Des Champs, James Russell Lowell
1490Latin
Lombardica historia que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda sanctor[um] appellatur
Jacobus de Voragine
1502Latin
Lombardica historia que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda sanctoru[m] appellatur. Item, Martyrologiu[m] Usuardi monachi ad Karolum Magnum
Jacobus de Voragine
1490Latin
Lombardica hystoria
Jacobus de Voragine
1488Latin
Lombardica hystoria que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda sancto[rum] appellatur
Jacobus de Voragine, Konrad Celtis, Sebald Schreyer, Anton Koberger
1496Latin
Los payadores gauchos: the descendants of the juglares of old Spain in La Plata
Frederick Mann Page
1897Spanish
Lud
Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
1895Polish
Lud nadrabski (od Gdowa po Bochnię)
Jan Świętek
1893Polish
Ludwig Tieck und die Volksbücher
Bernhard Steiner
1893German
Luz, y methodo, de confesar idolatras
Diego Jaime Ricardo Villavicencio, Diego Fernández de León
1692Spanish