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
Vergilij Maronis dreyzehen Eneadische bücher, von dem tewren helden Enea
Publius Vergilius Maro
1559German
Vergleichende Mythologie zum nähern Verständniss vieler Bibelstelllen
F. Nork
1836German
Verslag
D. J. van Lennep
1812Dutch
Versuch einer nähern Entdeckung und bessern Zusammenshangs der lustigen Physicae Aenigmaticae, oder, Der in Räzel versteckten Natur- Lehre und besonderer Einfalle der Poëten
Johann Friedrich Bonorden
1740German
Versuch über die Gräbersymbolik der Alten
Johann Jakob Bachofen
1859German
Vetālapañcaviṃśatiḥ
Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara Bhaṭṭācāryya
1873Sanskrit
Vida y Purgatorio de san Patricio
Juan Pérez de Montalván
1661French
Vie du pape Grégoire le Grand
Gregory I Pope, Victor Luzarche
1857French
Vier Bücher wunderbarlicher biss daher unerhörter und ungleiblicher indianischer Reysen durch die Lufft, Wasser, Land, Helle, Paradiss und den himmel
Gabriel Rollenhagen
1603German
Vier Paradoxa
Gustav Theodor Fechner
1846German
Vier hundert Wahl-Sprüche vnd Sinnen-Bilder
Joachim Camerarius
1671German
Vies des saints
Alban Stolz
1869French
Vindiciae fidei et pietatis Prouinciae, pro caelitibus illius tutelaribus restituendis
Honoré Bouche
1644Latin
Virgile au moyen-âge [Review of"Virgilio nel medio evo"
Th. de comte Puymaigre, Domenico Comparetti
1873French
Vita di Santa Caterina vergine, e martire
Marco Filippi
1578Italian
Vita e morte di Mosè
Salvatore de Benedetti
1879Italian
Vita et transitus (i.e. Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Augustinus: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De miraculis Hieronymi)
Saint Eusebius of Cremona
1476Latin
Vita miracoli e morte di santo Alessio
Thomas Gaisford
1620Italian
Vita prima S. Francisci Asisiensis
Thomas of Celano
1880Latin
Vita secunda S. Francisci Asisiensis
Thomas of Celano
1880Latin
Vittoria di Hercole al bivio
Marino Grimani
1597Italian
Vlysses redux
William Gager
1592Latin
Vlīi︠a︡nīe t︠s︡erkovnago uchenīi︠a︡ i drevnerusskoĭ dukhovnoĭ pisʹmennosti na mīrosozert︠s︡anīe russkago naroda i v chastnosti na narodnui︠u︡ slovesnostʹ, v drevnīĭ do Petrovskīĭ perīod
Alekseĭ Popov
1883Russian
Volgarizzamento delle vite de' santi padri
Domenico Cavalca
1731Italian