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
Marienlegenden
Franz Pfeiffer
1863German
Martin von Bracara's Schrift De correctione rusticorum
Saint Martin of Braga
1883German
Materialy k istorii apokrifa i legendy
V. N. Perett͡s
1899CHU
Materīaly dli︠a︡ izuchenīi︠a︡ byta i i︠a︡zyka russkago naselenīi︠a︡ Si︠e︡vero-Zapadnago krai︠a︡
P. V. Sheĭn
1887Russian
Materīaly dli︠a︡ ėtnografīi latyshskago plemeni Vitebskoĭ gubernīi
Ė. A. Volʹter
1890Latvian
Materīaly po ėtnografīi Novorossīĭskago krai͡a, sobrannye v Elisavetgradskom i Aleksandrīĭskom ui͡ezdakh Khersonskoĭ gubernīi
V. N. I͡Astrebov
1894Russian
Maʻaśeh bereshit
Sanchuniathon
1872Hebrew
Maʻaśeh ha-gedolim ʻim milin de-Rabanan
J. D. Süss
1891Yiddish
Maʻaśeh nora
Yehudah Meʼir
1857Hebrew
Maʻaśeh nora
Yehudah Meʾir, Solomon Navarro
1857Hebrew
Maʻaśeh taʻatuʻim
S. Rubin
1887Hebrew
Maʻaśot meha-gedolim ṿeha-tsadiḳim
Abraham Nisan Halevy
1897Hebrew
Mähel-Ring Mariae und Iosephi, das ist, Kurtzer warhafftiger gründlicher Ausszug unnd Inhalt vom hochheiligen wunderthädigen Mähel-Ring
Felice Ciatti
1661German
Maṭāliʿ al-shumūs fī qiṣṣat al-Wazīr Istākiyūs
Christoph von Schmid
1874Arabic
Medeltidsberättelser
Gustaf Cederschiöld
1885Swedish
Medée
Thomas Corneille
1695French
Medée et Jason
Joseph-François Salomon
1736French
Medée et Jason
Pellegrin M. l'abbé
1713French
Meleagrides et Aetolia, ex numismate [kypieōn] apud Goltzium
Lorenz Beger
1696Latin
Meletai peri tou biou kai tēs glōssēs tou Hellēnikou laou
Nikolaos G. Politēs
1899Greek
Memoria intorno alla vita Orfica
Claude François Fraguier
1748Italian
Metamorphoseon Ovidianarum typi aliquot
Crispijn van de Passe
1602Latin
Metamorphoseon, siue, Transformationum Ouidianarum libri quindecim
Antonio Tempesta, Pieter de Jode, Ovid
1606Latin
Metamorphoseōn Ouidianarum typi aliquot
Crispijn van de Passe
1602Latin