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
Nyländska folksagor
G. A. Åberg
1889Swedish
Nyländska folkseder och bruk, vidskepelse m.m.
Anders Allardt
1889Swedish
Nákres slovanského bájesloví
Jan Máchal
1891Czech
Národní bachorky a pověsti
Božena Němcová
1880Czech
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O Saci
José Bento Monteiro Lobato
1941Portuguese
O kharakteri︠e︡ narodnykh pi︠e︡senʹ u slavi︠a︡n zadunaĭskikh
I︠U︡rīĭ Venelin
1835Russian
O miḟicheskom znachenīi ni︠e︡kotorykh obri︠a︡dov i povi︠e︡rīĭ
Aleksandr Afanasʹevich Potebni︠a︡
1865Russian
O ni︠e︡kotorykh simvolakh v slavi︠a︡nskoĭ narodnoĭ poėzii
Aleksandr Afanasʹevich Potebni͡a
1860Russian
O rukopisnom molitvenniki︠e︡ starocheshskom s XIV-XV vi︠e︡ka, khrani︠a︡shchemsi︠a︡ v universitetskoĭ biblioteki︠e︡ vo Lʹvovi︠e︡
Яків Головацький
1861Russian
O zadachakh izuchenīi︠a︡ drevne-russkoĭ literatury i narodnoĭ poėzīi
I. S. Nekrasov
1892Russian
Ob es war sey das auff ein zeit ein Bapst zu Rom Schwanger gewesen, und ein Kindt geboren habe
Georg Scherer
1584German
Objectiones, contra physicam divinam Andreae Rudigeri ..
R. G. F. S
1717Latin
Obrazt︠s︡y mordovskoĭ narodnoĭ slovesnosti
Pravoslavnoe missīonerskoe obshchestvo
1800FIU
Obrazt︠s︡y narodnago govora i︠u︡zhnoĭ chasti Kurskoĭ i si︠e︡vernoĭ Kharʹkovskoĭ gubernīi, M. Khalanskago
Mikhail Georgievich Khalanskiǐ
1883Russian
Obrazt︠s︡y narodnoĭ literatury mongolʹskhikh plemen ...
Alekseĭ Matveevich Pozdneev
1880MON
Obrazy Rusi Czerwonej
Władysław Zawadski, Juliusz Kossak
1869Polish
Obychai i pi︠e︡sni turet︠s︡kikh serbov
I. S. I︠A︡strebov
1886Russian
Ocherk literaturnoĭ istorīi starinnykh povi︠e︡steĭ i skazok russkikh
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Pypin
1857Russian
Ocherk staroslavi︠a︡nskogo basnoslovīi︠a︡ ili miḟologīi
I︠A︡kiv Fedorovych Holovat︠s︡ʹkyĭ
1860Russian
Ocherki arīĭskoĭ miḟologīi v svi͡a︡zi s drevni͡e︡ĭsheĭ kulʹturoĭ
Vsevolod Feodorovich Miller
1876Russian
Ocherki iz istorīi litovsko-latyshskago narodnago tvorchestva
I͡Akov Lautenbakh
1896Latvian
Ocherki narodnoĭ literatury
S. Ansky
1894Russian
Ocherki narodnoĭ literatury
S. An-Ski
1894Russian
Oculta filosofia de la sympatia, y antipatia de las cosas, artificio de la naturaleza, y noticia natural del mundo
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg
1633Spanish