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.
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- 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
Poetisches Lexicon, darinnen die schönsten Realia und auserlesensten Phrases, aus denen berühmtesten Poeten Schlesiens, so dann eine vollständige Historia mythologica derer heydnischen Götter und Göttinen, und endlich ein richtiges Reim-Register, nach Ordnung des Alphabeths allen Liebhabern der Poesie zum Vergnügen, sonderlich aber der studierenden Jugend zum Nutz enthalten
Johann Christoph Männling
1719German
Pokhishchenīe Prozerpiny
Aleksandr Kotelʹnit︠s︡kīĭ
1805Russian
Politicheskii︠a︡ poniatii︠a︡ russkago prostoli︠u︡dina v skazkakh
Erasm Lucyan Kasprowicz
1896Russian
Populäre Aufsätze aus dem alterthum vorzugsweise zur Ethik und Religion der Griechen
Karl Lehrs
1875German
Poranduba Amazonense
João Barbosa Rodrigues
1890Spanish
Porticus bibliothecae illustriss. Seguierii Galliae Cancellarii
Simon Vouet
1640Latin
Poseidon Basileus und Athene Sthenias
Theodor Panofka
1857German
Poslední božíště Černoboha s runami na Skalsku, v kraji Boleslavském, v Čechách
Krolmus Váceslav
1857Czech
Posthomericorum
Quintus Smyrnaeus
1853Ancient Greek
Povi︠e︡sti i predanii︠a︡ narodovʺ slavi︠a︡nskogo plemeni
Ivan Petrovich Borichevskii
1840Russian
Povi︠e︡sti o Vaviloni︠e︡ i "Skazanie o Kni︠a︡zekh Vladimirskikh"
Iv Zhdanov
1891Russian
Poèmes algériens et récits légendaires
Victor Bérard
1858Arabic
Praemissa est Brevis de fortunatorum insulis disputatio
Karl Otfried Müller
1837Latin
Praemissa est disputatio de superstitionis natura ex sententia verterum, inprimis Romanorum
August Hahn
1840Latin
Prager Sagen
Clemens ritter von Weyhrother
1863Czech
Predanīi︠a︡ o rostovskikh kni︠a︡zʹi︠a︡kh
A. A. Titov
1885Russian
Priamo
Henrique José de Castro, Simão Thaddeo Ferreira
1786Portuguese
Primera [-tercera] parte del teatro de los dioses de la gentilidad
Baltasar de Vitoria, Juan Bautista Aguilar
1702Spanish
Primera parte del teatro de los dioses de la gentilidad
Baltasar de Vitoria, Bernardo Nogués, Juan Zonzoni, Edward Glaser, Herederos de Juan Crisóstomo Garriz
1646Spanish
Prinz und Derwisch
Wolf Alois Meisel
1847German
Prinz und derwisch; oder, Die makemen Ibn-Chisdais
Abraham ben Samuel ha-Levi Ibn Ḥasdai, Wolf Alois Meisel
1860German
Prinzen-Märchen
Agnes Schoebel
1890German
Prinzip des Mythus im Dienst der christlichen Position
O. Bagge
1865German
Priscae veterum borealium mythologiae lexicon
Finnur Magnússon
1828Latin