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
Sefer shivḥe ha-Beshṭ
Dov Baer ben Samuel of Linits
1884Hebrew
Sefer zekhirah ṿe-ʻinyene segulot
Zekharyah mi-ḳ.ḳ. Plungyan
1708Hebrew
Sefune temune ḥol
Gershon Enoch Leiner
1887Hebrew
Segulot ha-tsemaḥim ṿe-ototam
S. Rubin
1898Hebrew
Segvnda parte del Teatro de los dioses de la gentilidad ...
Baltasar de Vitoria, Mateo de la Bastida, R. Gey y Mareé, Edward Glaser, Imprenta Real
1676Spanish
Sehmü'l-gayb fi isabetü'z-zamir bi'l-erib
Şerefeddin Abdullah bin Salahaddin al-Yamani
1871Ottoman Turkish
Seine Marhete the meiden ant martyr, in old English
Margaret Saint
1866ENM
Seize superstitions populaires de la Gascogne
Jean-François Bladé
1881French
Semʹi︠a︡ po vozzri︠e︡nii︠a︡m russkago naroda, vyrazhennym v poslovit︠s︡akh i drugikh proizvedenii︠a︡kh narodno-poėticheskago tvorchestva
Aleksandr Zhelobovskiĭ
1892Russian
Sentini Balbi Argonautica
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Pieter Burman
1702Latin
Septem Thebana tragoedia Aeschulea
Aeschylus
1585Latin
Serat kantjil
W. Palmer van den Broek
1878Dutch
Sermones discipuli de sanctis
Johann Herolt
1510Latin
Sessanta novelle popolari montalesi
Gherardo Nerucci
1891Italian
Seyfer Megiles̀ Ester
Leib bar Moses Melir
1697Hebrew
Seyfer ha-bris̀ ...
Phinehas Elijah Hurwitz
1898Yiddish
Seznam pověr a zvyklostí pohanských z VIII. věku
Čeněk Zíbrt
1894Czech
Shabes̀ ḳoydesh in Ganeydn
Jacob Morgenstern
1895Yiddish
Shar Aknay zhoghovrdakan ergeri
Komitas Vardapet
1895Armenian
Sharḥ abū qirdān zaraʿa faddān
Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad Sujāʻī
1880Arabic
Shasekishū
Mujū Ichien
1686Japanese
Shinano kidan
Chūsō Nakamura
1829Japanese
Shivḥe ha-Ari
Shelomoh Dreznits
1853LAD
Shivḥe ha-Beshṭ
Dov Baer ben Samuel of Linits, Joshua Mondshain
1815Hebrew