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
Ruskīi︠a︡ skazki
1820Russian
Russkīi︠a︡ skazki
1829Russian
Sagan af Klarusi keisarasyni
1884Icelandic
Sagen, Mythen und Legenden der Stadt Köln am Rhein
1880German
Salata Salathin, jaitu, Sadjarah Malajoe
1884Indonesian
Schreckliche und erbermliche Historia wie Herr Fridrich Graff zu Altena und Isenberg seinen Vettern Herrn Engelbrecht Ertzbischoffen zu Coeln mörderlich erschlagen ...
1592German
Sefer 'igeret purim ...
1889Hebrew
Sefer A.B. de-Ven Sira
1857Hebrew
Sefer Gedulat Mosheh
1805Hebrew
Sefer Kenesiyah le-shem shamayim. ... laʻaḳor ule-sharesh maʻaśeh keshafim/c[Menasheh Sithon]
Menasheh Sithon
1873Hebrew
Sefer Niflaʼot Śar Shalom
1890Yiddish
Sefer Tseʾenah u-reʾenah ʻal Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah
Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi
1888Yiddish
Sefer ha-Mazal ṿeha-hatslaḥah
1886JRB
Sefer ha-maʻaśiyot
1869Hebrew
Sefer niflaʼot ḳedosh Yiśrael me-Ruzhin
1890Yiddish
Sefer s̀ifte tsadiḳ
1840Yiddish
Sermones discipuli de tempore, & de sanctis
Johann Herolt
1606Latin
Seyfer śifsey tsadeḳ
1839Yiddish
Sgeuluiḋeaċt Ċúige Muṁan.
Pádruig Ó Laoghaire
1895Irish
Shamanism in Norse myth and magic
Clive Tolley
2009Finnish
Shuwa Arabic Stories, With an Introduction and Vocabulary
C. G Howard
1921
Sidur ṿa-yomer Yosef
1895Hebrew
Sinnreiche teutsche und italiänische Historien
1720German
Sipure maʻaśiyot
1881Yiddish