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
Meteorologische Volksbücher
Gustav i.e. Johann Georg Gustav Hellmann, G. Hellmann
1895German
Mémoire sur les peintures que polygnote avait exécutées dans la lesché de Delphes
Charles Lenormant
1864French
Mga mito ng iba't ibang bansa
Pablo M. Cuasay
1976Tagalog
Mi-meḳor Yiśraʼel
Ch Bekache
1892JRB
Mifʻalot ha-tsadiḳim
Menachem Mendel Bodek
1899Hebrew
Minet-bleu et Louvette
Fagnan Madame
1786French
Miracle de Nostre Dame
Robert I Duke of Normandy
1836French
Miracle de Nostre Dame de la Marq̈se de la Gaudine qui par laccusemét de l'oncle de son mari auq́l son mari lauoit cómise a garder su condamnée a ardoir, Dont Anthenor, p le cómandemét d Nostre Dame sen combati a l'oncle et le desconfit en champ. Et est le dict miracle a. xvii. persónaiges. Imprime nouuellemét a Paris
Auguste Alexandre Veinant
1841French
Miracle de Nostre Dame, de Saint Iehan Crisothomes & de Anthure, sa mère
Carl Wahlund, Karl V. Wahlund
1875Dutch
Mischle Sindbad. Secundus - Syntipas, edirt, emendirt und erklärt. Einleitung und deutung des buches der Sieben weisen meister
Paulus Cassel
1888Hebrew
Mishle shuʻalim
Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan
1661Hebrew
Misteri Haur Geulis
Dadan Sutisna
2003SUN
Miti
Arturo Graf
1893Italian
Mitologia o esposizione delle favole e descrizione dei riti religiosi dei gentili, delle loro feste, e dei loro giuochi
Francesco Soave
1836Italian
Mitologie orientali
Domenico Bassi
1899Italian
Mitología universal
Juan Bautista Carrasco
1865Spanish
Mitología vegetal
Ginés Alberola
1892Spanish
Mittelalterliche sagen vom paradiese und vom holze des kreuzes Christi in ihren vornehmsten quellen und in ihren hervorstechendsten typen
Franz Kampers
1897German
Mittheilungen aus romanischen handschriften
Adolfo Mussafia
1884German
Miḟy slavi︠a︡nskago i︠a︡zychestva
D. O. Shepping
1849Russian
Molitva i magii︠a︡
Marii︠a︡ Shniter
2001Bulgarian
Momo Sanjin yawa
Michimaro Tōkaen
1841Japanese
Momotarō ko no den
Tarōmaru
1886Japanese
Moravské obrázky
Jan Herben
1886Czech