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
Qiṣṣat Ḥasan al-Ṣāʼigh al-Baṣrī wa-mā itufiqa lahu maʻa al-aʻjamī wa-akhawātihi al-sabʻ al-banāt wa-mā waqaʻa lahu fī jazāʼir al-Wāq Wāq min shaʼn zawjatihi
ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī ibn Sālim Simillāwī
1884Arabic
Qiṣṣāt al-Dalīlah al-muḥtālah
A. Cherbonneau
1872Multiple languages
Quaestiones Phaethonteae
Georg Knaack
1886Latin
Quaestiones coae mythologae .
Hermann Dibbelt
1891Latin
Quaestiones criticae in Euripideam Alcestidem
Władysław Kolanowski
1858Latin
Quatenus Taciti de Germania libello fides sit tribuenda?
Gottfried August Arndt
1775Latin
Quatre lettres sur le Mexique
Brasseur de Bourbourg abbé
1868French
Quatre lettres sur le Mexique, exposition absolue du systeme hieroglyphique mexicain
Brasseur de Bourbourg abbé
1868French
Quattro leggende inedite del boun secolo della lingua
Michele Melga
1857Italian
Quattro novelline popolari livornesi
Stanislao Prato
1880Italian
Questionnair de folklore
Eugène Monseur, Société de folklore wallon
1891French
Questionnaire des croyances, légendes et superstitions de la mer
Paul Sébillot
1885French
Questionnaire des enfantines & jeux et du blason populaire
Oscar Colson
1891French
Quid significaverint sepulcrales Nereidum figuræ
Jules Martha
1881Latin
Quinti Calabri Praetermissorum ab Homero Libri XIV
Quintus Smyrnaeus
1734Ancient Greek
Quomodo Telephi fabulam et scriptores et artifices veteres tractaverint
Carl Pilling
1886Latin
Qvatrocientos milagros y mvchas alabanças de la Santa Crvz
Jaime Bleda
1600Spanish
Qvinti Calabri Derelictorvm ab Homero libri qvatvordecim
Quintus Smyrnaeus
1505Ancient Greek
R. Nissim's Orientalischer legendenschatz
Nissim ben Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin, Adolf Löwy
1882German
R. Nyerup's Wörterbuch der skandinavischen Mythologie
Rasmus Nyerup
1816German
Rabbinische mythen, erzählungen und lügen
G. G. Bredow
1833German
Raccolta di varie antichita e lucerne antiche, intagliate la maggior parte
Pietro Santi Bartoli
1700Italian
Racconti popolari
Idelfonso Nieri
1889Italian
Radewin's Gedicht über Theophilus
Rahewin
1873German