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
Staročeské výroční obyĉeje, pověry, slavnosti a zábavy prostonárodní pokud o nich vypravují písemné památky až po náš vêk
Čeněk Zíbrt
1889Czech
Step
Dmytro Markovych
1886Russian
Stimmen aus dem Morgenlande
C. R. Peiper
1850German
Storia della sacra cintola di Prato
Michele dello Russo
1858Italian
Storia di Tobia e di Tobiolo e della cintola di M.V., che si conserva in Prato
Giuseppe Manuzzi, Luigi Razzolini
1832Italian
Stories from the land of Evangeline
Grace McLeod Rogers
1891
Stranstvovanīi͡a Telemaka, syna Ulissova
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
1822Russian
Studien aus dem Gebiete der lettischen Archäologie, Ethnographie und Mythologie
August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, Emil Bielenstein, Hans Bielenstein
1896German
Studien zu den mittelalterlichen Marienlegenden
Adolfo Mussafia
1886German
Studien zur griechischen Mythologie
Gottfried Goerres
1889German
Studien zur griechischen Mythologie und Kulturgeschichte vom vergleichenden Standpunkte
Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher
1878German
Studien zur vergleichenden Mythologie der Griechen und Römer
Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher
1873German
Studien über altfranzösische bearbeitungen der Alexiuslegende
Georg Kötting
1890German
Studier over Tusind og en nat
J. Østrup
1891Danish
Stutt Leidar-Ljód handa børnum
Jón Jóhannesson
1842Icelandic
Suevi︠e︡rīe v ego otnoshenīi k ugolovnomu pravu
A. Levenstim
1897Russian
Suite de La nouvelle Cyropedie, ov, Reflexions de Cyrus sur ses voyages
Louise-Élizabeth de Bourbon Condé princesse de Conti
1728French
Sulwān al-muṭāʿ fī ʿudwān al-atbāʿ
Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Ẓafar
1861Arabic
Supersticiones y cuentos de los Igorrotes
Juan Villaverde
1897Spanish
Superstitions et survivances
L.-J.-B Bérenger-Féraud
1896French
Superstizioni, usi e proverbi monferrini
Giuseppe Ferraro
1886Italian
Supplément au compositions historiques
A. M. Chenavard
1863French
Supplément au livre de L'antiquité expliquée ...
Bernard de Montfaucon
1724French
Supplément au livre de L'antiquité expliquée et representée en figures
Bernard de Montfaucon, Fondo Cicognara
1724French