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
... Aleksandrīi︠a︡. ...
1880CHU
A Eneida de Vergilio, Lida Hoje
Virgil
1908
A History of Leagram: The Park and the Manor
John Weld
1913
A Peke's Pilgrimage
Mabel Romer
1920
Abrégé de mythologie
1811French
Absolute Einheit der Religion und absolute Verschiedenheit des Mythus zu allen Zeiten und unter allen Völkern
1808German
Achilles und seine Denkmäler ausser Süd-Russland
Eduard von Muralt
1839German
Alenʹkoĭ t︠s︡vetochek
S. T. Aksakov
1886Russian
Alf laylah wa-laylah
1891Arabic
Alf laylah wa-laylah
1880Arabic
Alʹbom gravi︠u︡r-illi︠u︡strat︠s︡īĭ k russkim narodnym skazkam
1895Russian
Amphytrion
Molière
1679
Angenehmer Nach-Tisch
1690German
Antiquiteyt
1500Dutch
Antōninou Liberalis Metamorphaseon synagoge =
Antoninus Liberalis
1774
Argonauticon C. Valerii Flacci Setini Balbi libri VIII
Gaius Valerius Flaccus
1565Latin
Arthur Machen: A Bibliography
Henry Danielson
1923
As Mil e uma Noites
1881Portuguese
Að lifa og leita
Heiða Björk Vilhjálmsdóttir
2007Icelandic
Bahawa ini-lah dua belas cheritera dan per-umpama-an yang ter-sangat ber-guna bagai kanak-kanak di-dalam sekola-sekola Malayu
1893Malay
Bahawa inilah hikayat Jahidin yang berguna di dalam tempat belajar kanak-kanak Melayu di dalam Singapura, Pulau Pinang dan Melaka
1888Malay
Bantu Beliefs and Magic, With Particular Reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba Tribes of Kenya Colony; Together With Some Reflections on East Africa After the War
Charles William Hobley
1922
- Read free
Beauty and the Beast and Other Stories
1905
Ben ha-melekh veha-nazir ...
1518Hebrew