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
Pannonia ó-kori mythologiai emlékeinek vázlata
Viktor Récsey
1894Hungarian
Pantheon antiqvorum, exhibens imagines deorum qui ab antiquis colebantur
Vincenzo Cartari
1683Latin
Papinii Statii Svrsvli Achilleis
P. Papinius Statius
1472Latin
Parabole, leggende e pensieri
Giuseppe Levi
1861Italian
Particulam observationum de Svevis in genere
Hans Peder Anchersen
1746Latin
Passionael ...
Jacobus de Voragine, Charles Fairfax Murray, William Morris, Hendrik Eckert
1516Dutch
Patmutʻiwn pghndzē kʻaghakʻin
Khikar Imastun
1850Armenian
Pauli Ernesti Iablonski, de Memnone Graecorum, et Aegyptorum, huiusque celeberrima in Thebaide statua syntagmata III
Paul Ernst Jablonski
1753Latin
Pañcadaṇḍachattraprabandha
Albrecht Weber
1877German
Pañcatantram
Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara Bhaṭṭācāryya
1899Sanskrit
Penelope
Andreas Friz
1761Latin
Perceval le Gallois
Chrétien de Troyes
1866FRO
Peregrinaggio di tre giovani
Michele Tramezzinno
1891German
Perisynagōgē glōssikēs hylēs kai ethimōn tou hellēnikou laou idia de tou tēs Peloponnēsou, paraballomenōn en pollois pros ta tōn archaiōn Hellenōn
P. Papazapheiropoulos
1887Greek
Perseus und die Gräa
Theodor Panofka
1847German
Persée : tragedie, représentée par l'Academie royale de musique, pour la premiere fois, le 17 avril, ensuite à Versailles au mois de juin 1682
Jean Baptiste Lully
1746French
Perú
Clorinda Matto de Turner
1884Spanish
Petit cours de mythologie
E. Geruzez
1852French
Petr Velikīĭ v narodnykh predanīi︠a︡kh Si︠e︡vernago krai︠a︡
E. V. Barsov
1872Russian
Petri Iacobi Montifalchii De cognominibvs deorvm opvscvlvm
Petrus Jacobus Montifalchius
1525Latin
Petri de Dusburg, Ordinis teutonici sacerdotis, Chronicon Prussiæ, in quo Ordinis teutonici origo, nec non red ab ejusdem ordinis magistris ab an. MCCXXVI. usque ad an. MCCCXXVI. in Prussia gestæ exponuntur, cum incerti auctoris continuatione usque ad annum MCCCCXXXV
Petrus de Dusburg, Christoph Hartknoch
1679Latin
Phantasus
Ludwig Tieck
1810German
Phantasus des Morgenlandes, oder, Tausend und eine Nacht
Johann Christian Ludwig Haken
1816German
Phaëton
Philippe Quinault
1683French