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
True stories, or, Pictures from the history of Spain
M. G. Sleeper
1868
Truths and fancies from fairy land, or, Fairy stories with a purpose
W. H. Davenport Adams
1867
Valentine and Orson
Walter Crane, Edmund Evans
1874
Völsunga saga
1888
Warne's national nursery library
Sarah Catherine Martin
1873
Weird Tales (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man)
Edgar Allan Poe
1895
Welsh fairy-tales
1894
West Irish folk-tales
1893
Will-o'-the-wisps, or, Lights and sprites
1862
Works (Annabel Lee / Bells / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Israfel / Lenore / Masque of the Red Death / Raven / Shadow / To Helen / To One in Paradise / Ulalume)
Edgar Allan Poe
1897
Works (Pit and the Pendulum / Raven)
Edgar Allan Poe
1899
Worlds displayed
John Campbell
1819
Youth's treasury; or, A store-house of wit and mirth
1688
Yule-tide stories
1875
Zig zag fables
J. A. Shepherd
1897
Zigzag journeys in India, or, The antipodes of the Far East
Hezekiah Butterworth
1887
[ Plates from Bell's New pantheon.
1789
[Craignish tales ... et al.]
1889
[Pamphlets on Indians of North America.
1833
[Red Riding Hood
1875
[Virgilius
1518
- Read free
Jack and the Beanstalk
Date unknown
- Read free
Legends That Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People
Date unknown
"Cymru fu"
1862Welsh