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
Sv. Georgīĭ i Egorīĭ Khrabryĭ
A. I. Kirpichnikov
1879Russian
Svenska folksagor
Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius
1875Swedish
Svenska folksagor från skilda landskap
August Bondeson
1882Swedish
Svenska folksagor och äfventyr
Albrekt Julius Segerstedt
1884Swedish
Svenska folkägner samlade samt försedda med historiska och etnografiska anmärkningar
Herman Hofberg
1882Swedish
Svenska medeltidens kloster- och helgona-bok
George Stephens
1844Swedish
Svi︠a︡tochnyi︠a︡ pi︠e︡sni, igry, gadanii︠a︡ i ocherki kazanskoĭ gubernii
Aleksandr Fedorovich Mozharovskiĭ
1873Russian
Syair Ken Tambuhan dan Syair Yatim Nestapa dan Syair Bidasari
Hillebrandus Cornelius Klinkert
1886Malay
Symbolorum & emblematum ex animalibus quadrupedibus desumtorum centuria altera
Joachim Camerarius
1595Latin
Symbolorum & emblematum ex re herbaria desumtorum centuria vna collecta
Joachim Camerarius
1590Latin
Symbolorvm et emblematvm ex volatilibvs et insectis desvmtorvm centvria tertia
Joachim Camerarius
1596Latin
Symbolorv̄ et emblematvm ex re herbaria desvmtorvm centvria
Joachim Camerarius
1651Latin
Syrische Erzaehlungen
Julian Emperor of Rome, Georg Hoffmann, British Library
1880German
Szekelyföldi gyüjtés
János Kriza
1882Hungarian
Sögur og æfintýri
Torfhildr Þorsteinsdóttir Holm
1884Icelandic
Südhannoversches sagenbuch
Rudolf Eckart
1899German
Sýnisbók íslenzkrar tungu og íslenzkra bókmennta í fornöld
Konráð Gíslason
1860Icelandic
Sýnishorn af útleggingu af norrænu á ensku og frakknesku
Bjarni Johnsen
1856
Sīrat Fāris al-Yaman wa-mubīd ahl al-kufr wa-al-miḥan Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan
Abū al-Maʻālī Rāwī
1877Arabic
Sīrat Rāfiʿ al-Hilālī maʿa maḥbūbatihi Daʿd
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ʻAbbās al-Bayḍāwī
1864Arabic
Sōjinki
Bao Gan
1699Japanese
Ta tōn Philostratōn leipomena apanta =
Philostratus the Athenian
1709Ancient Greek
Tableau de la littérature du Nord au Moyen Âge, en Allemagne et en Angleterre, en Scandinavie et en Slavonie
Frederic Gustave Eichhoff
1853French
Taddeo del Branca e una tradizione leggendarioa sull'Alighieri
Carlo conte Cipolla
1887Italian