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
Tade enesti en tēde tē bibliō. Theokritou eidyllia toutesti mikra poiēmata triakonta
Theocritus
1495Ancient Greek
Tafsīr al-Ḥakīmah Sibīlā
Sibylla Daughter of Heraclius the philosopher
1870Arabic
Taishōki kaii yōkai kiji shiryō shūsei
Kōichi Yumoto, 湯本豪一
2014Japanese
Talfīqat ḥikāyāt ẓarīfah wa-amthāl wa-qaṣaṣ laṭīfah bi-al-ʻArabīyah al-maṭlūqah al-jāriyah fī al-ʻamālāt al-Jazāʼirīyah
ʻAllāwah ibn Yaḥyá
1890Multiple languages
Tamnān rāhū čhap čhan
William J. Gedney
1889Thai
Taschenbuch der Sagen u. Legenden
Amalie von Imhoff von Helvig
1812German
Tausend und ein Tag, das ist, Persianische Historien und allerley Liebesgebenheiten
François Pétis de La Croix
1762German
Tazkirah-i Faṣīḥ
Shajā'at 'Alī ibn Ghulām Ḥaidar
1892Urdu
Taʿrīb al-amthāl fī taʾdīb al-aṭfāl
Rifāʻah Rāfiʻ Ṭahṭāwī
1845Arabic
Telemaco all'isola di Calipso
Antonio Monticini
1852Italian
Telephos und Troilos
Otto Jahn
1841German
Tentamen phoinikologias sacrae, sive Dissertatio emblematico-theologica de palma
Georgius Castanaeus Bloch
1700Latin
Textes khmers
E. Aymonier
1878French
Télémaque dans l'isle de Calypso
Pierre Gardel
1790French
The Baobab that Opened Its Heart
Mikhaʾel Laiṭman
2011
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The History of the Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Edward Dalziel, George Dalziel, William McConnell
1858
- Read free
The Magic Cloak, and Other Stories
L. Frank Baum
1916
- Read free
The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy: For the Use of Schools
Thomas Keightley
1837
- Read free
The New World Fairy Book
Howard Angus Kennedy
1904
- Read free
The Old Nurse's Stocking-Basket
Eleanor Farjeon
1931
- Read free
The Princess of the Moon: A Confederate Fairy Story
Cora Semmes Ives
1869
- Read free
The White Cat, and Other Old French Fairy Tales
Aulnoy, Madame d', 1650 or 1651-1705|* Madame d'Aulnoy
1928
- Read free
The Wonder Clock: or, Four and Twenty Marvellous Tales, Being One for EachHour of the Day
Howard Pyle, Katharine Pyle
1915
The history of the heavens considered according to the notions of the poets and philosophers
Noël Antoine Pluche
1740French