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
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Pixies' Plot
Eden Phillpotts
Date unknown
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Proverbi, tradizioni e anneddoti delle valli ladine orientali con versione italiana
Johann Alton
1881Italian
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Quinti Smyrnaei Tryphiodori Joannis Tzetzae et Coluthi carmina de rebus troianis
Quintus Smyrnaeus
1879Ancient Greek
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Rheinsagen aus dem Munde des Volkes und deutscher Dichter
Karl Joseph Simrock
1857German
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Riddarasögur
Eugen Kölbing
1872Icelandic
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Sagen aus den Rheingegenden, dem Schwarzwalde und den Vogesen
Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber
1848German
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Sagen und Märchen aus Potsdam's Vorzeit /gesammelt von Karl v. Reinhard ; mit Ergänzungen von Wilhelm Riehl
Karl von Reinhard
1841German
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Short Stories
Algernon Blackwood
Date unknown
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Skazka ob Ivanie-tsarevichie, Zhar-ptitsie i o sierom volkie
Ivan I͡Akovlevich Bilibin
1899Russian
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Sto prostonárodních pohádek a povstí slovanských v náeich pvodních
Karel Jaromír Erben
1865Czech
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Story of Aeneas
Michael Clarke
1898
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Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms
Stephen Langdon
Date unknown
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Tales from the Works of G. A. Henty
George Alfred Henty
Date unknown
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Tales of the Covenanters
Ellen Emma Guthrie
Date unknown
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Testi inediti di storia trojana preceduti da uno studio sulla leggenda trojana in Italia
Egidio Gorra
1887Italian
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That Reminds Me: A Collection of Tales Worth Telling
Anonymous
Date unknown
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The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations
Zelia Nuttall
Date unknown
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The Golden Helm, and Other Verse
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Date unknown
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The Hidden Servants and Other Very Old Stories
Francesca Alexander
Date unknown
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The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2
Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Tufnell
Date unknown
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The Magic Ring and Other Stories
Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford
Date unknown
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The Myths And Legends Of Ancient Greece
E. M. Berens
1880
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The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia
Theophilus Theophilus Goldridge Pinches
Date unknown
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The Queen Who Flew: A Fairy Tale
Ford Madox Ford, Charles Raymond Booth Barrett, Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Date unknown