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.
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- 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
[P. Ovidii N. Metamorphoseon]
Joh. Wilhelm Baur
1700German
[Phutthaprawat, læ Tamnān Phrathāt Nakhō̜n Sī Thammarāt]
William J. Gedney
1800Thai
[S]i et cotidie vetera recentibus obruant, nonnulla tamen iamdudum vetera precesserunt ...
Guido delle Colonne
1480Latin
[Sefer Divre ha-yamim shel Mosheh rabenu ʻa. h.
Jacob H. Schiff
1544Hebrew
[Taille douce
Peter Schenk
1690Dutch
[Примѣрн?]ый поступокъ салдата который спасъ жизнь Петра Великаго на охотѣ
Nathalie Ehrenbourg-Mannati
1850Russian
al-Amānī wa-al-minnah fī ḥadīth Qabūl wa-wird jinnah
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
1872Arabic
al-Farqadīn
Jirjī Yannī
1871Arabic
al-Kasb al-mazrub
Masʻud Maʻarek
1895Hebrew
al-Mughrib al-muṭrib
Hans Christian Andersen
1877Arabic
al-Nuṭq al-mafhūm min ahl al-ṣamt al-maʿlūm
Aḥmad Ibn Ṭugharbak
1864Arabic
al-Riyādah al-bahīyah wa-mā-jará lil-Amīr Abū Zayd wa-al-ʿArab al-Hilālīyah
Najd ibn Hishām al-ʻĀmirī
1865Arabic
al-Sabk wa-al-lahaj
Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Miṣrī
1876Arabic
al-Tuḥfah al-bahīyah wa-al-ṭurfah al-shahīyah
ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī
1885Arabic
al-Tuḥfah al-marḍīyah fī al-akhbār al-qudsīyah wa-al-Aḥādīth al-Nabawīyah wa-al-ʻaqāʼid al-tawḥīdīyah wa-al-ḥikāyāt al-sanīyah
ʻAbd al-Majīd ibn ʻAlī ʻAdawī
1880Arabic
al-Tuḥfah al-sanīyah fī al-nawādir al-ʻArabīyah
Belkassem ben Sedira
1879Arabic
al-Wahm fī sīrat Mubārak ibn Rayḥān maʻa maḥbūbatih Bint al-Ḥān
Shākir Shuqayr
1870Arabic
al-juzʾ al-awwal min Sīrat al-mujāhidīn wa-ḥizb al-Muwaḥḥidīn wa-dhāt al-himmah
ʻAlī ibn Mūsá al-Qulīnī
1881Arabic
Ármanns saga, kostað hefur
Halldór Jakobsson
1858Icelandic
Étude critique sur les traditions relatives aux origines de la Confédération Suisse
H. Hungerbühler
1869French
Étude psychologique sur le coeur de l'homme
A. Riche
1878French
Études de mythologie slave
Louis Leger
1895French
Études sur les chants historiques et les traditions populaires de l'ancienne Arménie
Edouard Dulaurier
1852French
Über Orpheus und die Orphiker
Eduard Gerhard
1861German