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
Orestes
Vittorio Alfieri
1820Portuguese
Orestes
Voltaire
1790Portuguese
Orientalische Märchenwelt
Marianne Conrad Frau Wolf
1892German
Origine commune des contes populaires européens
François-Marie Luzel
1874French
Orphei poetarum vetustissimi Argonautic[?]n opus Graecu[m], cu[m] interpretatione Latina incerti autoris, recens addita, & dilige[n]tius quam hactenus eme[n]data
Orpheus
1523Latin
Orphei poetarvm vetvstissimi Argonauticōn opus Graecu[m]
Lodrisio Crivelli, Hans Holbein, Andreas Cratander, Charles-Louis de Secondat baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
1523Ancient Greek
Orpheus und Herakles in der Unterwelt
Veit Valentin
1865German
Orpheōs hapanta
Andreas Christian Eschenbach, Johann Matthias Gesner, Georg Christoph Hamberger
1764Ancient Greek
Ossetische sagen und märchen
Anton Schiefner, Imperatorskai︠a︡ akademīi︠a︡ naukRussia
1868German
Oszmán-török népköltési gyűjtemény
Ignácz Kúnos
1887Turkish
Otgoloski iranskikhʺ skazaniĭ na Kavkazi︠e︡
V. F. Miller
1889Russian
Otsar agadot mi-Talmud Bavli ṿi-Yerushalmi
Gavriʼel ben Ḥayim Miller
1877Hebrew
Overtro og trolddom fra de aeldste tider til vore dage
Alfred Lehmann
1893Danish
Ovidii Metamorphosis, oder, Verwandlungs Bücher
Johann Wilhelm Baur
1641German
P. Iacobi Balde Paraphrasis lyrica in Philomelam D. Bonaventurae Doct. ecclesiae
Jakob Balde
1645Latin
P. Ouidii Nasonis Heroides cum interpretibus Hubertino Crescent. & Iano Parrhasio
Ovid
1542Latin
P. Ovidii Nas. Metamorphosis, oder: Des verblümten Sinns der Ovidianischen Wandlungs=Gedichte gründliche Auslegung
Carel van Mander, Johann Jakob von Sandrart
1679German
P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistola decimaquinta Paris Helenae
Ovid
1540Latin
P. Papinius Statius
Publius Papinius Statius
1884Latin
P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis
Publius Vergilius Maro
1763Latin
P. ovi nasonis svlmonensis poetae clarissimi Heroidvm alias epistolarvm
Ovid
1480Latin
Palaephati libellus De incredibilibus
Palaephatus, Johann Friedrich Fischer
1772Ancient Greek
Palmblätter
August Jacob Liebeskind
1786German
Pami︠a︡tniki bolgarskago narodnago tvorchestva
V. V. Kachanovskīĭ
1882Russian