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
Riwāyat Saʿīd wa-Suʿdá
Khalīl Sarkīs
1872Arabic
Riwāyat al-Mārkīz dī Fūntānj
Roger de Beauvoir
1860Arabic
Riwāyat al-diryāq fī aḥwāl al-ʿushshāq
Nakhlah Ṣāliḥ
1875Arabic
Riwāyat ʿĀṣin wa-shajʿān
Johann Andreas Christoph Hildebrandt
1874Arabic
Rolands-Album
Ferdinand Freiligrath
1840German
Roorda's Pandji-verhalen in het Javaansch
Taco Roorda
1896JAV
Rose und Nachtigall
Paulus Cassel
1860German
Rosegarten im deutschen Lied, Land und Brauch
Eduard Jacobs
1897German
Ross und Reiter in Leben und Sprache, Glauben und Geschichte der Deutschen
Max Jähns
1872German
Rudiments de parler et de style chinois
Léon Wieger
1895French
Rukmiṇīpariṇaya, arthāt, Rukmiṇīmaṅgala
Raghurājasiṃha Maharaj of Rewa
1896Hindi
Runa
Richard Dybeck
1865Swedish
Ruskie prostonarodnye prazdniki i sueviernye obriady
Ivan Snegirev
1837Russian
Ruskii︠a︡ skazki
Mikhail Dmitrievich Chulkov
1780Russian
Ruskīi︠a︡ skazki, soderzhashchīi︠a︡ Drevni︠e︡ĭshīi︠a︡ Povi︠e︡stvovanīi︠a︡ o slavnykh Bogatyri︠a︡kh, Skazki narodnyi︠a︡ i prochīi︠a︡ ostavshīi︠a︡si︠a︡ chrez pereskazyvanīe v pami︠a︡ti Prikli︠u︡chenīi︠a︡
Vasiliĭ Levshin
1780Russian
Russkai︠a︡ khrestomatii︠a︡
F. I. Buslaev
1888Russian
Russkai︠a︡ khristomatīi︠a︡
F. I. Buslaev
1881Russian
Russkai︠a︡ knizhka, I. Khudi︠a︡kova
I. A. Khudi︠a︡kov
1863Russian
Russkai︠a︡ narodnai︠a︡ poėzīi︠a︡
V. A. Voskresenskīĭ
1881Russian
Russkai︠a︡ narodnostʹ v ei︠a︡ povi︠e︡rʹi︠a︡kh, obri︠a︡dakh i skazkakh
D. O. Shepping
1862Russian
Russkie bylinnye bogatyri
Andreĭ Petrovich Ri͡abushkin
1895Russian
Russkīi͡a︡ narodnyi͡a︡ di͡e︡tskīi͡a︡ skazki
Iv Feoktistov
1895Russian
Russkoe i︠a︡zychestvo
M. Nikiforovskīĭ
1875Russian
Russkīi︠a︡ di︠e︡tskīi︠a︡ skazki
A. N. Afanasʹev
1870Russian