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
Pyndarus De bello Troiano
Franciscus Polyardus, Gershom Soncino, Maffeo Vegio
1515Latin
Qiṣṣat Abī-Qīr wa-Abī-Ṣīr
Joseph_ Richert
1876Multiple languages
Qiṣṣat Fuʾād wa-Rafqah maḥbūbatihi
Nakhlah Ṣāliḥ
1872Arabic
Qiṣṣat Jawdar al-ṣayyād
Octave Victor Houdas
1865Arabic
Qiṣṣat Muʿādh ibn Jabal wa-wafāt al-Nabī
Muʻādh ibn Jabal
1866Arabic
Qiṣṣat Muʿādh ibn Jabal wa-wafāt al-Nabī
Abū Ḥanīfah
1880Arabic
Qiṣṣat Shams al-Dīn wa-Nūr al-Dīn
A. Cherbonneau
1852Multiple languages
Qiṣṣat Zayn al-Aṣnām
Florence Groff
1889Multiple languages
Qiṣṣat al-Kū̄̄̄nt dī Mū̄̄̄ntū Krīstū
Alexandre Dumas
1883Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-Maymūn wa-al-Qanbar ʿAlī
Aḥmad al-Darwīsh
1880Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-Muqaddam ʻAlī al-Zaybaq
Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Miṣrī
1866Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-Muqaddam ʿAlī al-Zaybaq
Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Miṣrī
1880Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-Sindibād al-Baḥrī fī sabʻ safarātihi fī al-barr wa-al-baḥr al-Hindī-Kayd al-nisā
L. Langlès
1814Multiple languages
Qiṣṣat al-akhawayn
Christoph von Schmid
1865Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-alfāẓ al-ḥisān
Najd ibn Hishām l-ʻĀmirī
1880Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-hazār
Christoph von Schmid
1866Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-qaṭṭ maʿa al-fār
Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān_
1880Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-tājir ʻAlī Nūr-al-Din al-Mis̄rī wa-mā jarā lahū maʻa jāriyatihī Maryam al-Zunnārīyah bint malik Afranjah wamā fīhā min al-ʻajāʼ ib ʻalā al-tamām
ʻAli Nūr-al-Dīn al-Miṣri
1896Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-ʿashar wuzarā wa-mā jarā la-hum maʿa Ibn al-Malik Azād Bakht
Gustavus Knös
1807Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-ʿashr wuzarā
Asʻad Abū Ṣuwān
1882Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-Ḥārith wa Lubnā
Anton Hassan
1873Multiple languages
Qiṣṣat faras al-ʻUqaylī Jābir
Abū ʻUbaydah Maʻmar ibn al-Muthanná al-Taymī
1870Arabic
Qiṣṣat faras al-ʿUqaylī Jābir
Abū ʻUbaydah Maʻmar ibn al-Muthanná al-Taymī
1865Arabic
Qiṣṣat ʿAlī al-Zaybaq ibn Ḥasan Rās al-Ghūl
Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Miṣrī
1884Arabic