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
Ragnar Lodbrok og Lodbrokssønnerne
Gustav Storm
1877Icelandic
Rappresentazione di Barlaam e Josafat
Bernardo Pulci
1516Italian
Rayḥānat al-afkār fī akhbār al-ʾasad al-karrār wa-al-baṭal al-qahhār al-Malik Shahrayār
Iskandar ibn Yaʻqūb Abkāriyūs
1880Arabic
Razyskanīi︠a︡ v oblasti anekdoticheskoĭ literatury
N. F. Sumt︠s︡ov
1898Russian
Raʾs ṣakhrat al-shayṭān
Eugène Sue
1874Arabic
Recherches historiques sur l'exercice de la médecine dans les temples, chez les peuples de l'antiquité ...
Louis Philibert Auguste Gauthier
1844French
Recherches sur le culte du cyprès pyramidal chez les peubles civilisés de l'antiquité
Félix Lajard
1854French
Recherches sur le culte du cyprès pyramidal chez les peuples civilisés de l'antiquité
Félix Lajard
1854French
Recherches sur le culte, les symboles, les attributs, et les monuments figurés de Vénus, en Orient et en Occident
Félix Lajard
1837French
Reflexions critiques sur les histoires des anciens peuples
Etienne Fourmont
1735French
Reflexions sur l'origine, l'histoire et la succession des anciens peuples
Étienne Fourmont
1747French
Register til Njála andet bind og K. Gíslasons andre afhandlinger
Finnur Jónsson, Kongelige Nordiske oldskriftselskab
1896Danish
Relation historique et théorie des images photo-électriques de la foudre
Andrés Poey
1861French
Religion der Karthager
Friedrich Münter
1816German
Religions de l'antiquité
Georg Friedrich Creuzer
1825French
Religiozno-mificheskoe znachenie malorusskoĭ svadʹby
N. F. Sumt︠s︡ov
1885Russian
Rep[er]torium vocabulorum equisitorum oratorie poes[is] et historiarum cum fideli narrac[i]o[n]e earum rerum que ambiguitatem ex huiusmodi vocabulis accipiu[n]t per quod fere omnes oculte et difficultates et subtilitates in studijs humanitatis facile iuxta alphabeti ordinem inuenie[n]tur
Konrad von Mure
1475Latin
Reseña de la mitología de los pueblos de Tusayán
Jesse Walter Fewkes
1893Spanish
Reste altgermanischen Heidentums in unseren Tagen
Johann Durmayer
1883German
Reĭnskīi︠a︡ legendy
Ekaterina Vi︠a︡cheslavovna Balobanova
1897Russian
Récit en prose et en vers de la farce des précieuses
Madame de Villedieu
1879French
Ricordi
N. F. Pelosini
1890Italian
Riwāyat Janfiyāf
Christoph von Schmid
1866Arabic
Riwāyat Qalb al-Asad
Walter Scott
1886Arabic