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
Låse-bok för barn
J. Berger
1819Swedish
Maanedsskrift for litteratur
1830Danish
Maʻaśeh Tsofer
1600Hebrew
Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages, publiés d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothéque nationale
1876French
Miscelánea folk-lórica per los Srs. Almirall [et al.]
1887Spanish
Mythologia
1693Latin
Mythologia, sive, Quarundam fabularum explicatio
1693Latin
Môrīśasa kā Hindī loka-sāhitya
1986Hindi
Naše déti
František Bartoš
1888Czech
Nedzumi no yomeiri (Mouse's wedding)
1885
Neueröffneter Musen-Tempel
1733German
Nihon mukashibanashi
Sazanami Iwaya
1800Japanese
Nipon o daï itsi ran
1834French
Nouvelle mythologie de la jeunesse, contenant les divinités ... les héros ... un abrégé de la vie des poètes qui ont le plus contribué à nous faire connaître la mythologie; les emblèmes des fleurs et des couleurs; les symboles des animaux ..
Henri Mme Tardieu-Denesle
1826French
Nuovo legendario
1768Italian
Nye eventyr og historier
Hans Christian Andersen
1861Danish
Nyländska folksagor
1889Swedish
Nyländska folkseder och bruk, vidskepelse m.m.
1889Swedish
Old Stories and Sayings of Great Britain and Ireland
1911
Oros viejos
Herminio Almendros
1965Spanish
Paṇḍūna kau kaṛā
1992
Peregrinaggio di tre giovani, figliuoli del re di Serendippo
1891German
Poetarum scenicorum graecorum, Aeschyli, Sophoclis, Euripidis, et Aristophanis Fabulae superstites et perditarum fragmenta
1865Ancient Greek
Rolands-Album
1840German