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
The lyvys of seyntys
Osbern Bokenham
1835
The story of Cecil and his dog
Eugénie Foa
1865
The wedding-ring
R. Wilberforce Starr
1898
Theatrum poeticum et historicum, siue, Officina
Joannes Ravisius Textor
1595Latin
Themis dea, seu de lege diuina
Stephanus Vinandus Pighius, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Christophe Plantin
1568Latin
Theogonie und goetter
Ludwig Preller
1894German
Theologia mythologica
Georg Pictorius
1532Latin
Theologia mythologica ex doctiss. uirorum promptuario
Georg Pictorius
1532Latin
Theologia mythologica ex doctiss. uirorum promptuario, labore Pictorij Vill. in compendium congesta
Georg Pictorius, Michiel Hillen
1532Latin
Theses theologicae de atheismo et superstitione
Joannes Franciscus Buddeus
1717Latin
Thesée
Philippe Quinault
1680French
Thesée
Jean Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville, Philippe Quinault, Antoine Bandiéri de Laval, Michel Jean Bandiéri de Laval, Christophe Ballard, France) Château de Fontainebleau (Fontainebleau, John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection
1765French
Thetis et Pelée
Pascal Collasse
1689French
Thierfabeln bei den meistersängern
Wilhelm Grimm, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin
1855German
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Thirty More Famous Stories Retold
James Baldwin
1905
Thomæ Bartholini Casp. filii de lvce animalivm libri III
Thomas Bartholin, Alfred James Hill, Volterra collection, Milwaukee Academy of Medicine. Book Collection, Horace Manchester Brown Collection
1647Latin
Thrakisch-Pelasgische Stämme der Balkanhalbinsel und ihre Wanderungen in mythischer Zeit
Bernhard Giseke
1858German
Thésée
Jean Baptiste Lully
1754French
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Timothy's Shoes and Two Other Stories
Lois Dwight Cole, Juliana Horatia Ewing
1932
Tong qi xian zhi
Tz'ǔ-yün Lu
1799Chinese
Toull al lakez
Lan Inisan
1878BRE
Trabajos y afanes de Hercvles
Juan Francisco Fernández de Heredia
1682Spanish
Traces de buddhisme en Norvége avant l'introduction du christianisme
Christopher Andreas Holmboe
1857French
Tradicionalismo épico-novelesco
Erich Freiherr von Richthofen
1972Spanish