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
Ступени человѣ ческаго вѣка
Nathalie Ehrenbourg-Mannati
1850Russian
אלדד הדני־
Eldad ha-Dani
1856Hebrew
דברי הימים ופטירתו של מרע"ה
Isidore of Seville, David Blondel, Gilbert Gaulmin
1714Ancient Greek
ליקוטי הש״ס
Isaac ben Solomon Luria, Saʻadia ben Joseph
1896Hebrew
מסתרי הגוים הקדמונים
Joseph Aryeh Tretzek
1875Hebrew
מעשה הגדולים עם מילין דרבנן
ישראל דוד זיס
1891Yiddish
מעשה שעשועים
Eliyahu ben Yosef Gig
1868JRB
ספור הדברים
Joseph ben Isaac Sambari
1728Hebrew
ספר בוצינא דנהורא
Baruch ben Jehiel of Medzibezh, הבעש״ט, ha-Ga'on mi-Shpitipke, מרדכי מטשירנאביל, הגאון משפיטיפקע
1884Hebrew
ספר עשה פלא
Yosef Shabtai Farḥi
1869Hebrew
ספר קנאת האמת
Yehuda Leyb Mizis
1828Hebrew
עשה פלא
Joseph Shabbethai Farḥi
1870Hebrew
צאינה וראינה
יעקב בן יצחק אשכנזי
1877Yiddish
קנאת האמת
Yehuda Leyb Mizis
1828Hebrew
التحفة المرضية في الاخبار القدسية والادحايث النبوية والعقائد التوحيدية والحكايات السنية والاشعار المرضية
عدوي، عبد المجيد بن علي
1881Arabic
قصص الانبياء
ربغوزي، ناصر الدين برهان الدين،, عبد القادير مخدوم بن داملا ذاكر آخوند تاشكندي
1899CHG
نلدمن فارسی
Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak Fayz̤ī
1852Persian
Ḥadīth ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn wa-al-qandīl al-masḥūr
Hermann Zotenberg
1888Multiple languages
Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah
Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi
1788Yiddish
Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah Tseʼenah u-re-ʼenah
Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi
1874Hebrew
Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah bi-leshon Ashkenaz
Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi
1731Yiddish
Ḥikāyat Anīs al-jalīs
Albert de Biberstein-Kazimirski
1847Multiple languages
Ḥikāyat Bāsim al-Ḥaddād
_ al-Ḥaddād_ Bāsim
1888Multiple languages
Ḥikāyat Jīl Blās matāʼ Sāntīyānah
Alain-René Lesage
1850Multiple languages