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
Trois légendes de mon pays
Joseph-Charles Taché
1871French
Trois légendes de mon pays, ou l'évangile ignoré, l'évangile prêché, l'évangile accepté
Joseph-Charles Taché
1876French
Trudy Etnografichesko-statisticheskoi ekspeditsii v Zapadno-Russkii krai
N. I. Kostomarov, Pavlo Chubynsʹkyĭ, P. A. Gilʹtebrandt, Imperatorskoe russkoe geograficheskoe obshchestvo. I͡Ugo-Zapadnyĭ otdi͡el, Imperatorskoe russkoe geograficheskoe obshchestvo. Ėtnografichesko-statisticheskai︠a︡ ėkspedit︠s︡īi︠a︡ v Zapadno-Russkīĭ kraĭ, Ėtnografichesko-statisticheskai͡a ėkspedit͡sīi͡a v Zapadno-Russkīĭ kraĭ
1872Russian
Trudy Ėtnografichesko-statisticheskoĭ ėkspedit︠s︡īi v Zapadno-Russkīĭ kraĭ, snari︠a︡zhennoĭ Imperatorskim Russkim geograficheskim obshchestvom (I︠U︡go-Zapadnyĭ otdi︠e︡l)
Ėtnografichesko-statisticheskai︠a︡ ėkspedit︠s︡īi︠a︡ v Zapadno-Russkīĭ kraĭ
1872Russian
Truyện chơi văn chƯơng
Abel Des Michels
1872Vietnamese
Tryphiodori et Colluthi Carmina
Tryphiodorus
1896Ancient Greek
Tryphiodōrou Iliou halōsis
Tryphiodorus
1741Ancient Greek
Tseʼenah u-reʼenah
Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi
1784Yiddish
Tseʾenah u-reʾenah benot Tsiyon
Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi
1736Yiddish
Tsuki hyakusugata
Yoshitoshi Taiso
1891Japanese
Tuisko-Land, der arischen Stämme und Götter Urheimat
Ernst Krause
1891German
Turet͡skīi͡a legendy o Svi͡atoĭ Sofīi i o drugikh vizantīĭskikh drevnosti͡akh
V. D. Smirnov
1898Russian
Turet︠s︡kīi︠a︡ legendy o Svi︠a︡toĭ Sofīi i o drugikh vizantīĭskikh drevnosti︠a︡kh
W. D. Smirnow
1897Russian
Tutkimuksia suomalaisten kansansatujen alalta
Kaarle Krohn
1887Finnish
Tuvinskiĭ geroicheskiĭ ėpos
L. V. Grebnev
1960Russian
Tuḥfat al-adab
Baydabā
1887Multiple languages
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Two Tales
Mohammed Yassin Nassimi
1963
T͡Sirt͡sei͡a i Ulis
A. Kni͡azhnin
1803Russian
UFOer og rumvæsener
Mikael Rothstein
2000Danish
Uber Agathodämon und Bona Dea
Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard
1849German
Uber Baumverehrung, Wald- und Feldkulte der littauischen Völkergruppe
August Brosow
1887German
Uber die Namen des Donners, von Jacob Grimm. Eine academische Abhandlung vorgelesen am 12, Mai 1853 / Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm
Jacob Grimm
1855German
Udsigt over den nordiske mythologi
Sneedorff-Birch
1834Danish
Ueber das Verhältniss der Recensionen des niederdeutschen Spiels von Theophilus
Karl Sass
1879German