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
Sagen und mährchen aus den Oberlausitz
Ernst Willkomm
1843German
Sagen, Märchen und Lieder der Herzogtümer Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg
Karl Müllenhoff
1845German
Sagenbuch der sächsischen Schweiz
Alfred Meiche
1894German
Sagenbuch des Egergaues
Heinrich Gradl
1892German
Sagenbuch des Preussischen Staats
Johann Georg Theodor Grässe
1867German
Saggio di novelline, canti ed usanze popolari della Ciociarìa
Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
1891Italian
Sagn og eventyr fra Nordland
O. Nicolaissen
1879Norwegian
Sagor, sägner, legender, äfventyr ock skildringar af folkets lefnadssätt på landsmål hufvudsakligen ur landsmålsföreningarnes samlingar
J. A. Lundell
1881Swedish
Sainte Tryphine et le roi Arthur
François-Marie Luzel, Auguste Charles Henry
1863BRE
Sainte Ursule et de ses onze mille vierges ; ou
J. H. Kessel
1870French
Sakses oldhistorie
Axel Olrik
1894Danish
Salmoneus
Th Rempen
1847German
Samvel Costers Iphigenia
Samuel Coster
1617Dutch
Sanchoniathonis Berytii quae feruntur fragmenta De cosmogonia et Theologia Phoenicum
Philo of Byblos
1826Ancient Greek
Sanct Francisken Leben
Lamprecht von Regensburg
1880German
Sangen om Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1860Danish
Saugu Asmundar, er Kalladur er Kappabani
Johan Peringskiöld
1722Danish
Saxonis Grammatici Historiae Danicae, libri XVI
Saxo Grammaticus
1644Latin
Saxonis Grammatici Historiæ danicæ libri XVI
Saxo Grammaticus
1644Latin
Sbornik ot bŭlgarski narodni umotvorenii︠a︡
Kuzman Shapkarev
1891Bulgarian
Sbornik slovenských národnich piesni, povestí, prísloví, porekadiel, hádok, hier, obyčajov a povier
Matica slovenská
1870Slovenian
Schediasma historico-philologicum de diis obotritis
Hector Gottfried Masius
1688Latin
Schellings philosophie der mythologie
Friedrich Schaper
1893German
Schelmereien Amor's
Jean de La Fontaine
1860German