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
קצות הערש
1894JRB
קצות הערש
1897JRB
קצת ברזלא מע אל דב
1892JRB
תפארת ישראל
1840Yiddish
ليلى ومجنون
1838Ottoman Turkish
هذا كتاب الالفاظ الظريفة في رحلة العرب وحرب الزناتي خليفة
1881Arabic
هذه قصة حسن الصائغ البصري وما اتفق له مع الاعجمي واخواته السبع بنات وما وقع له في جزائر واق الواق من شأن زوجته وهي قصة عجيبة وسيرة غريبة
1874Arabic
Ḥikāyat Uns al-Wujūd maʻa maʻshūqatihi al-Ward fī al-Akmām bi-al-tamām
1870Arabic
Ḥikāyat Uns al-Wujūd maʿa maʿshūqatihi al-Ward fī al-Akmām bi-al-tamām
1862Arabic
Ḳisat Daṿid ha-melekh
1888JRB
Ḳisat Daṿid ha-melekh u-Shelomoh ha-melekh
1888JRB
Ḳisat Ester
1892JRB
Ḳisat Zayd al-Ghulām
1888JRB
Ḳitsot ha-eres
1897JRB
Ḳiṣat Avraham avinu ʻalaṿ ha-shalom
1891Hebrew
Ḳiṣat al-naya wa-abu al-giyyatin
1894Hebrew
メルヘン・透視・錬金術 : アンティエ・グメルスの旅 = Fairy tales, clairvoyance and alchemy : the journey of Antje Gummels
Antje Gummels, 国士 巌谷
2009Japanese
何仙姑寶卷
1898Chinese
姚秦三藏西天取淸解論
1368Chinese
婆羅岸全傳
1804Chinese
岣嶁神書
1877Chinese
日本書紀
1669Japanese
月季歌
1875Chinese
"Vic"
Marie Louise More Marsh
1892