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
Moravské národní pohádky, pověsti, obyčeje a pověry
Beneš Method Kulda
1874Czech
Mousaiou poiēmation ta kath' Hērō kai Leandron
Musaeus Grammaticus
1548Ancient Greek
Munājāt al-bulaghāʾ fī musāmarat al-babaghāʾ
Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn Nakhshabī
1882Arabic
Museum cortonense in quo vetera monumenta comprehenduntur anaglypha ...
Accademia etrusca. Museo
1750Latin
Musäus' Volksmärchen der Deutschen
Johann Karl August Musäus
1877German
Musäus' Volksmärchen der Deutschen
Albert Ludwig Grimm
1872German
Musée des monumens français, ou, Description historique et chronologique des statues en marbre et en bronze, bas-reliefs et tombeaux des hommes et des femmes célèbres, pour servir à l'histoire de France et à celle de l'art
Musée des monuments français
1800French
Mutiara yang terlupakan
Suripan Sadi Hutomo
1991Indonesian
Mythen und sagen der Indianer Amerika's, in deutscher darstellung
Amara George
1856German
Mythen, Spuk und gute Geister
Franz Severin Berger, Christiane Holler
1998German
Mythographi latini
Thomas Muncker
1681Latin
Mythologiae
Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, Giovanni Battista Pio, Ulrich Scinzenzeler, Louis prince de Condé, Charles III of Spain, Aubrey Neville St. John Mildmay, William Horatio Crawford, Richard Ashhurst Bowie, G. H. Powell
1498Italian
Mythologici Latini
Hieronymus Commelinus
1599Latin
Mythologie
Dupuy M
1731French
Mythologie de la jeunesse
Renneville Madame de
1837French
Mythologie der Griechen und Römer für die reifere und gebildete weibliche Jugend
Julie Hoffmann
1864German
Mythologie der Griechen, Römer, Ägypter, Semiten, Perser, Germanen, und Slaven
Konrad Schwenck
1855German
Mythologie der Skandinavier und Deutschen
Anton Joseph Weidenbach
1851German
Mythologie der alten Hebräer
Joseph Bergel
1882German
Mythologie der deutschen Heldensage
Wilhelm Müller
1886German
Mythologie grecque, latine, et slavonne
Fonvent M. de
1815French
Mythologie und Offenbarung
Ludwig Noack
1845German
Mythologie zoologique
Angelo De Gubernatis, Paul Regnaud, M F Baudry
1874French
Mythologische Cyklen
Carl Robert
1890German