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
The story of the three little pigs
1888
The unhappy effects of enthusiasm & superstition
John Evans
1804
Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia collected and annotated.
James Alexander Teit
1899
Tyneside songs and drolleries
1890
Vergil's Aeneid
1896
Virgil's Aeneid
1893
W.B. Yeats and occultism: A study of his works in relation to Indian lore, the Cabbala, Swedenborg, Boehme and theosophy
Harivansh Rai Bachchan
1974
WITCHCRAFT, SUPERSTITION AND RATIONALITY: EXAMINING HARMFUL PRACTICES AND CULTURAL BELIEFS IN INDIA
2025
William Tell, and the snow drift
1800
Witchcraft and sorcery : selected readings
M. G. Marwick
1970
Witchcraft, superstition & ghostly magic
Daniel Cohen
1974
Witches, demons, and fertility magic : analysis of their significance and mutual relations in West-European folk religion
Arne Runeberg
1947
- Read free
Mountain Moggy
William Henry Giles Kingston
Date unknown
- Read free
Old Testament Legends: Being Stories Out of Some of the Less-Known Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament
Montague Rhodes James
Date unknown
- Read free
Picturebook Without Pictures
Hans Christian Andersen
Date unknown
- Read free
The Complete Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
Date unknown
- Read free
The Golden Fleece
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date unknown
- Read free
The Great March: Post-Biblical Jewish Stories, Book I
Rose G Lurie
Date unknown
- Read free
The Little Lame Prince, Rewritten for Young Readers
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Margaret Waters
Date unknown
Die Āl, ein persisches Kindbettgespenst
Wilhelm Eilers
1979German
"Fold og sjórinn léku dans"
Kristín Jónsdóttir
1994Icelandic
"Sýndist það mörgum mönnum atgervi að maður væri fjölkunnigur"
Margrét Kristjana Sverrisdóttir
2006Icelandic
"Wer ist Mein Nächster?" Negertypen aus Deutschwestafrika
Paula Karsten
1903German
't Leven en bedrijf van Mr. Jan van Oldenbarnevelt, nagevolght van Mr. Jan de Wit, beyde pensionarissen van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt. Als vogels van eenderley veeren
1672Dutch