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
Natalis Comitis Mythologiae sive explicationum fabularum libri X
Natale Conti
1618Latin
Natalis Comitis Mythologiae, sive Explicationvm fabularvm, libri decem
Natale Conti
1583Latin
Natalis Comitis Mythologiae, sive explicationis fabularum, libri decem... Eiusdem, Libri IIII de venatione... Addita Mythologia musarum, a Geofredo Linocerio
Natale Conti
1596Latin
Natalis Comitis Mythologiaem, siue, Explicationis fabularum, libri decem ..
Natale Conti
1616Latin
Natalis Comitis Mythologiæ, sive, Explicationum fabularum, libri decem
Natale Conti
1581Latin
Naḥalah le-Yiśraʾel
Pinkas Lewi Huruwitz
1881Hebrew
Naẓīrat ʻUnwān al-sharaf
ʻAbd Allāh al-Waṣṣāf Efendī
1863Multiple languages
Nederlandsche volksoverleveringen en godenleer
Laurent Philippe Charles van den Bergh
1836Dutch
Nerei vaticinium de raptu Helenae apellaea Guidonis Rheni arte depicto
Paolo Maccio
1633Italian
Neu-vermehrter Helden-Schatz, das ist, Naturkündliches Bedencken
Johann Staricius
1685German
Neue Beobachtung und Ausmessung des Sternhaufens 38h Persei am Münchener grossen Refractor
Karl Oertel
1891German
Neue Idyllen, Volkssagen, Legenden und Erzählungen aus der Schweiz
Johann Rudolf Wyss
1822German
Neue Nordische Sagen
Amalie Schoppe
1829German
Ni shang xu pu
Tingshao Wang
1789Chinese
Niebuhr's Griechische heroen-geschichten =
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
1891German
Niederlausitzer volkssagen vornehmlich aus dem stadt- und landkreise Guben gesammelt und zusammengestellt
Karl Gander
1894German
Nihon shoki
son of Tenmu Toneri Prince, Yūkichi Takeda
1824Japanese
Nihon shoki tsūshō
Kotosuga Tanikawa
1762Japanese
Nihonkoku kaibyaku yuraiki
Genryō Hirano
1856Japanese
Niobes historiam graecae sculptura[?] miraculum medicei olim ruris urbe decus nunc Florentiae ornamentum Thomas Piroli ...
Tommaso Piroli
1800Latin
Njals saga
N. M. Petersen
1862Danish
Nordische sagen der deutschen jugend erzählt und mit einem wissenschaftlichen anhange versehen
Karl Russwurm
1842German
Nordisk mythologi
N. M. Petersen
1849Danish
Nordisk mythologi
Fredrik Sander
1887Swedish