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
Sophoclis tragoediae septem
Sophocles
1603Ancient Greek
Sophoclis tragoediae septem, cum fragmentis ex recensione Dindorfii
Sophocles
1844Ancient Greek
Sophokleous Antigonē
Sophocles, Wilhelm Dindorf
1870Ancient Greek
Sophokleous Elektra = Sophoclis Electra
Sophocles, Wilhelm Dindorf
1870Ancient Greek
Sophokleous Oidipous Tyrannos =
Sophocles
1865Greek
Sophokleous tragōdiai hepta
Sophocles
1502Ancient Greek
Sous les pavots
Charles Mosont
1860French
Souvenirs d'Alsace
Maurice Engelhard
1882French
Sovremennai︠a︡ maloruskai︠a︡ ėtnografīi︠a︡
N. F. Sumt︠s︡ov
1893Russian
Specimen Sapientiæ Indorum Veterum
Baydabā
1697Multiple languages
Specimen philologicvm de vetervm gentilivm et Ivdaeorvm theologia mythica
Sebastian Jacob Jungendres
1728Latin
Specimens of Malagasy folk-lore
Lars Nilsen Dahle
1877MLG
Sprachliches aus rumänischen Volksmärchen
Jan Urban Jarník
1877German
Språkliga intyg om hednisk gudatro i Sverge
Magnus Fredrik Lundgren
1878Swedish
Spår af hednisk tro och kult i fornsvenska personnamn
Magnus Fredrik Lundgren
1880Swedish
Sravnitelʹnoe izuchenīe narodnago byta i poėzīi
F. I. Buslaev
1873Russian
Srpske narodne igre, koje se zabave radi po sastancima igraju
Vuk vitez Vrčević
1868Serbian
Srpske narodne pripovedke
Djordje Kojanov Stefanović
1871Serbian
Srpske narodne pripovijetke
Jovan B. Vojinović
1869Serbian
Srpske narodne pripovijetke
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
1870Serbian
St. Nicholas
Wace
1850FRO
Starina i narodnost
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kotli͡arevskiĭ
1862Russian
Starinnyi︠a︡ dikovinki ili prikli︠u︡chenii︠a︡ slavenskikh kni︠a︡zeĭ
Mikhail Vasilʹevich Popov
1778Russian
Staro-russkīe solnechnye bogi i bogini
M. E. Sokolov
1887Russian