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 bytal-pacheesee, or, The twenty-five tales of the demon
1858INC
The concept of shamanism : uses and abuses
Henri Paul Francfort, Roberte Hamayón, Paul G. Bahn
2001Hungarian
The taill of Rauf Coilzear how he harbreit King Charlis
1572
The tales of Vikramarka
1850TEL
Theophilus
1886German
Thidrekssaga und Dietrichsepos. Untersuchungen zur inneren und äusseren form
Hans Friese
1867German
- Read free
Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse
1920
Tifʼeret Yiśraʼel
1840Yiddish
Title:The Farmer's boy; Subtitle:Rural tales,Ballads, and songs to which are added wild flowers
1836
Toyzind und eyne nakhṭ
1835Yiddish
Toyzind und eyne nakhṭ
1893Yiddish
Tradiciones Cubanas: Relatos y Retratos Históricos
Alvaro de la Iglesia
1911Spanish
Trattato del molto R.P. Giorgio Scherer theologo della compagnia di Iesv
Georg Scherer
1586Italian
Trenne nya och mycket märkwärdiga berättelser
1826Swedish
Triunfo del amor perfecto, ò Los amantes firmes y virtuosos
1756Spanish
Tuhoe, the Children of the Mist: A Sketch of the Origin, History, Myths and Beliefs of the Tuhoe Tribe of the Maori of New Zealand; With Some Account of Other Early Tribes of the Bay of Plenty District
Elsdon Best
1925
Türkische Volksmärchen aus Stambul
Ignácz Kúnos
1905German
Une Page de mythologie sémitique, sur un petit bijou de Louvre
1882French
Van deme Holte des hilligen Cruzes
1869German
Vergleichende Märchenforschungen
Antti Aarne
1908German
Vida y tránsito de San Jeronimo.
Jerome
1492Spanish
Virgil's Aeneid, book V
1882Latin
Volks-Aberglaube
1833German
Vom Märchenerzählen im Volke
Lisa Tetzner
1919German