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
Ḥikāyāt mi’at laylah min Alf laylah wa-laylah
Scheherazade
1814Arabic
Ḥusn al-ikhtirāʿ fī shakhṣ qadr al-ṣubāʿ
Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Translator at The School of Languages at Cairo
1845Arabic
Ḳol śaśon
Mordekhai ben Shelomoh Tseror
1884Hebrew
Ṣaltuḳ-nāme
Ebüʾl-Hayr-ı Rumı̂
1974Turkish
Ṭarāʼif fukāhāt fī arbaʻ ḥikāyāt-
Anṭūn Ṣāliḥānī
1890Multiple languages
Ṭarāʾif fukāhāt fī arbaʻ ḥikāyāt
Anṭūn Ṣāliḥānī
1890Arabic
五色線
毛晉
1628Chinese
劉香寶卷
Ma nao jing fang shan shu ju
1898Chinese
勅封大王將軍紀略
Shouyong Zhu, Junru Xu
1889Chinese
嘆世無為經
Qing Luo
1368Chinese
圓覺眞經
Haoranzushi zhu
1898Chinese
太古史年歷考
落合直澄
1891Japanese
妖怪學講義
Inoue, Enryō
1896Japanese
山海經釋義
郭璞, 王崇慶, 董漢儒, 大業堂
1465Chinese
巍巍不動太山深根結果經
Qing Luo
1368Chinese
後緹縈南曲
汪宗沂
1885Chinese
新刻醒心寶卷
Banghan Yue
1893Chinese
新鐫許真君玉匣記增補諸家選擇日用通書
Xun Xu, Shuolin Zhu
1875Chinese
有象列仙全傳
Shizhen Wang, 汪曇鵬
1600Chinese
正信除疑無修證自在寳卷
Qing Luo
1368Chinese
海內十洲記
Shuo Dongfang
1646Chinese
潘公免灾寶卷
Yi Pan
1870Chinese
玉匣記
Xun Xu
1880Chinese
現世寶卷
Ma nao jing fang
1879Chinese