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
Russkīi︠a︡ narodnyi︠a︡ pi︠e︡sni ob Ivani︠e︡ Vasilʹevichi︠e︡ Groznom
Petr Veĭnberg
1872Russian
Russkīi︠a︡ narodnyi︠a︡ skazki i byli v stikhakh
A. Lukʹi︠a︡novskīĭ
1884Russian
Russkīi︠a︡ narodnyi︠a︡ skazki v stikhakh
A. Bri︠a︡nchaninov
1885Russian
Russkīi︠a︡ narodnyi︠a︡ skazki, pribautki i pobasenki
E. A. Chudinskīĭ
1864Russian
Russkīi︠a︡ predanīi︠a︡
M. N. Makarov
1838Russian
Russkīi︠a︡ skazki
Vladimīr Luganskīĭ
1832Russian
Ränke und Schwänke der heimatlichen Vorzeit
Gerhard Robert Walter Ritter von Cöckelberghe-Dützele
1846German
Récits bretons
A. Blanloeil
1892French
Récits bretons
Charles Paul Jacques Aclocque, d'Amezeuil pseud
1863French
Récits historiques, traditions & légendes de Haut-Bretagne, Ille-et-Vilaine
G. de abbé Corson
1870French
Rübezahl
K. A. Müller
1800German
Rückblicke auf Dichtungen und Sagen de deutschen Mittelalters
Albert Schulz
1872German
Safarāt al-Sindibād al-Baḥrī
Édouard Ducret
1884Multiple languages
Saga Páls Skálaholts biscups
Stefán Sveinsson
1889Icelandic
Saga denshinroku
Robun Kanagaki
1874Japanese
Sagaer, fortalte af Brynjolf Snorrason og Kristian Arentzen
Brynjolfur Snorrason, Kristian August Emil Arentzen
1849Danish
Sagan af Holta-Þóri
Magnús Sigurðsson Vesturlandspóstur
1876Icelandic
Sagan af Ásmundi víkingi inum írska ...
Eggert Ó. Brím
1866Icelandic
Sagan af Þjalar-Jóni
Gunnlaugur Þórðarson
1857Icelandic
Sagan om Didrik af Bern
Dietrich von Bern, Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius
1850Swedish
Sagas rhenanes
A. Hermann Bernard, J. C. Saintonges
1863French
Sagen des Neckarthals
Friedrich Baader
1843German
Sagen und Erzählungen der Sylter Friesen
Christian Peter Hansen
1895German
Sagen und geschichten der Langobarden
F. Soldan
1888German