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
Sipurey nifloes̀ meha-goen ha-tsadiḳ Shilo haḳodesh
1895Yiddish
Sir Orfeo
1880German
Siṁhāsana batarīsī
1866GUJ
Skazka o Ivani︠e︡ Bogatyri︠e︡, o prekrasnoĭ suprugi︠e︡ ego Svi︠e︡tlani︠e︡ i o zlom volshebniki︠e︡ Karachuni︠e︡
1856Russian
Skazka za skazkoĭ
1841Russian
Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore
Joseph Joseph Sargent Hall
1960
South-Mountain Magic: A Narrative
Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren
1882
Standish O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages
Standish O'Grady
1918
Studien zu den Germanischen Dichtungen vom Weltuntergang
Gustav Neckel
1918German
Sīrah
1866Arabic
Sīrat Banī Hilāl
1880Arabic
Tales of the Mustang
J. Frank Dobie
1936
Tamnān rāhū čhap čhan
1889Thai
Temime derekh
1886Hebrew
Teras
Paulus Stein
1909Latin
The Book of Truth, or, The Voice of Osiris: Set Down in the House of El Eros-El Erua, They Being Male-Female, Born According to the Laws Governing the Dhuman-Adamic Race, This Being Their Fourth Incarnation
Hugh Clayton Randall-Stevens
1927
- Read free
The Bremen Band
1927
- Read free
The Dwarfs' Tailor, and Other Fairy Tales
1896
- Read free
The Golden Goose
1928
- Read free
The History of Valentine and Orson
1840
The Menehune of Polynesia and Other Mythical Little People of Oceania
Katharine Luomala
1951
The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story)
Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, active 11th century|* Somadeva Bhaṭṭa
1924
The Strangest Story Ever Told
Harry D Colp
1953
The Types of the Folk-Tale: A Classification and Bibliography
Antti Aarne
1928