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
Der Lobgesang aus den heiligen Anno in der altteutschen Grundsprache des elften Jahrhunderts, und mit einer Einleitung, Uebersetzung und Anmerkungen
1816German
Des Freih. v. Münchhausen wunderbare Reisen und Abenteuer zu Wasser und zu Lande
Gottfried August Bürger
1874German
Deutsche Götter und Helden nebst der Sage von Parzival
Heinrich Wanner
1885German
Die Wunderbare Geschichte von Concordia, eines Commedanten [sic] Tochter
1770German
Die älteste mittelenglische Version der Assumptio Mariae
1892German
Divre ha-yamim u-feṭirato shel Mo.R. ʻa.h. =
1629Latin
Ecbasis captivi
1875Multiple languages
Edda
1881Icelandic
Eine Wahre und approbirte Kunst in Feuers-Bru nsten und Pestilentz-Zeiten nu tzlich zu gebrauchen.
1780German
Ett forn-svenskt legendarium
1847Swedish
Evangelium Nicodemi, oder, Historischer Bericht von dem Leben Jesu Christi
1819German
Fables et contes indiens
1790French
Gaduiḋe duḃ O Duḃáin
1899Irish
Geroi Gomera s kratkimi ocherkami iz drugikh skazanīĭ drevni︠a︡go mīra
S. Chekala
1888Russian
Geschichten, Sagen und Legenden des Bayernlandes
1845German
Geschiedenis van het heylighe cruys, or, History of the holy cross
1863Dutch
Greek Folk-Songs From the Turkish Provinces of Greece, Albania, Thessaly (Not Yet Wholly Free), and Macedonia
1885
Gu wen suo yu.
1889Chinese
Gui dong
1786Chinese
Gömlu-marínar leyndardómsfulla galdra- eða spáspilabók.
1886Icelandic
H.C. Andersen's ausgewählte Märchen für die Jugend
H. C. Andersen, Eduard Kretzschmar
1870German
Hai shan qi yu
1877Chinese
Hero-tales of Ireland
1894
Hessische Kinderliedchen
Gustav Eskuche, Johann Lewalter
1891German