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
Pro sacerdotvm barbis
Pierio Valeriano
1533Latin
Proben aus einer Abhandlung über Namen und symbolische Bedeutung der Finger bei den Griechen und Römern
Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer
1835German
Programm der Städtischen Realschule zu Bromberg
Robert Hassencamp
1873German
Prolegomena zu einer neuen Gallerie Heroischer Bildwerke
Arthur Schneider
1890German
Prologue et divertissemens nouveaux pour Circé
Florent Carton Dancourt
1705French
Promethei Aeschylei v. 526-608 rec. commentario critico et exegetico.
G. Timm
1874German
Prosadiktr från Sveriges medeltid
G. E. Klemming
1887Swedish
Proverbele Românilor din România, Basarabia, Bucovina, Ungaria, Istria și Macedonia
Juliu A. Zanne, Iuliu A. Zanne
1895Romanian
Proverbi, detti e leggende indostani
Camillo Tagliabue
1899Hindi
Proverbi, strofe e racconti Abissini
Ignazio Guidi
1894Italian
Proverbia Ben-Sirae autoris antiquissimi, qui creditur fuisse nepos Ieremiae prophetae
Joannes Drusius
1597Hebrew
Proza-bewerkingen van het leven van Alexander den Groote in het Middelnederlandsch
Alexander the Great
1898Dutch
Proze popullore nga Drenica
Anton Çetta
1972Albanian
Prvi osnovi slovenske književnosti među balkanskim slovenima
Stojan Novaković
1893Serbian
Prähistorisch-anthropologische studien
F. L. W. Schwartz
1884German
Précis élémentaire de mythologie grecque
Drioux abbé
1871French
Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon libri XV
Ovid, Joseph de Jouvency
1754Latin
Publii Papinii Statii Sylvarum lib. V.
P. Papinius Statius, Joannes Veenhusen
1671Latin
Purāṇakathānighandhu
Pailo Pōḷ
1899MAL
Puruṣa-parīkṣā
Vidyāpati Ṭhākura
1888MAI
Pushkin, kak poėt-ėtnograf
Vsevolod Feodorovich Miller
1899Russian
Pvb. Virgilii Maronis Aeneidos liber VI
Publius Vergilius Maro
1500Latin
Pvb. Virgilii Maronis Aeneidos liber VIII
Publius Vergilius Maro
1561French
Pyladae genealogia
Giovanni Francesco Boccardo Pilade
1500Latin