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
Qiṣṣat Saʿd al-Yatīm bi-al-tamām wa-al-kamāl
1872Arabic
Qiṣṣat Shammah wa-Zahr al-Bān
1872Arabic
Qiṣṣat Zayd wa-ʻUmar awlād al-Sulṭān ʻĀmir Sulṭān Banī Dabbāḥ
1871Arabic
Qiṣṣat Zaʻīṭ wa-akhīhi Maʻīṭ
1880Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-Khaḍrā umm al-Amīr Abū Zayd ibnat al-Amīr Qirḍāb al-Sharīf
1869Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-Malik Qamar al-Zamān maʻa al-Malikah Budūr wa-mā jará la-humā
1880Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-Tājir ‘Alī Nūr al-Dīn al-Miṣrī
1885Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-barzakhah
1877Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-barzakhah
1870Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-qāḍī maʿa al-ḥarāmī
1886Arabic
Qiṣṣat al-ḥammāl wa-mā jará la-hu min gharāʼib al-aḥwāl
1885Arabic
Qiṣṣat tawaddud al-jāriyah
1883Arabic
Qiṣṣat ʻAjīb wa-Gharīb wa-mā jará la-humā
1880Arabic
Qiṣṣat ʿAjīb wa-Gharīb wa-mā jará la-humā
1880Arabic
Qiṣṣat Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
1880Arabic
Qiṣṣāt Dalīlah al-muḥtālah wa-bintihā Zaynab al-naṣābah wa-akhīhā Zurayq al-sammāk maʿa Aḥmad al-Danaf wa-Ḥasan Shūmān wa-ʿAlī al-Zībaq al-Miṣrī
1862Arabic
Qiṣṣāt al-Tājir ʿAlī Nūr al-Dīn al-Miṣrī wa-mā jará la-hu maʿa jāriyatihi Maryam al-Zunārīyah bint Malik Ifrinjah wa-mā fīhā min al-gharāʾib wa-al-ʿajāʾib ʿalá al-tamām
1880Arabic
Qiṣṣāt al-Tājir ʿAlī Nūr al-Dīn al-Miṣrī wa-mā jará la-hu maʿa jāriyatihi Maryam al-Zunārīyah bint Malik Ifrinjah wa-mā fīhā min al-gharāʾib wa-al-ʿajāʾib ʿalá al-tamām
1862Arabic
Qṣt Brzlʼ mʻ ʼl db
1890JRB
Qṣt Ntn Rṣyṣtʼ
1888JRB
Raptus Helenae
Colluthus of Lycopolis
1816Latin
Rayana Sehar Niva Kaha of Jinaharsha Gani, Edited With Sanskrit Translation
Jinaharsha, active 1648-1707|* Jinaharsha
1918Sanskrit
Rijmpies en Raaisels: Bijdraë tot die Suidafrikaanse Volkskunde
C. F Groenewald
1919
Ritter Louhardus, das ist, Eine vortreffliche wunderschöne History Cipern von eines Königes Sohn aus Niederland
1665German