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
Era
The Arabian nights' entertainments, or, The thousand and one nights
1847
The Berkshire lady
1790
The Blazing-star, or, A Discovrse of comets
1664
The Cats concert
1809
The Children's Cinderella, or, The Little glass slipper
1875
The Court of Oberon, or, Temple of the fairies
1823
The Crafty lover; or the lawyer-out-witted
1790
The Description of the castle of entertainment
1679
The Devil and Doctor Faustus
1807
The Doyle fairy book
Anthony Rubens Montalba
1890
The English archer, or, Robert Earl of Huntingdon, vulgarly called Robin Hood
1840
The Gentleman and lady's key to polite literature, or A compendious dictionary of fabulous history ...
1783
The Life and death of Tom Thumb, the little giant
1808
The Lord of Hardivyle
1800
The Only child, or, Portia Bellenden
1821
The Real H. P. Blavatsky: A Study in Theosophy, and a Memoir of a Great Soul
William Kingsland
1928
The Siamese tales
1797
The Sleeping beauty of the wood
1800
The Story of the three bears
1892
The Tarot: A Contemporary Course of the Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism
Mouni Sadhu
1971
The Ulster tragedy
1790
The Vicar of Iver
1821
The Vishnu Purana
1895
The adventures of the six princesses of Babylon, in their travels to the temple of virtue
Lucy Peacock
1786