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
Russkii narod
1880Russian
Samling af eventyr til en behagelig tidsfordiv for børn og børnevemner i ledige timer.
1799Danish
Sanct Alexius leben in acht gereimten mittelhochdeutschen Behandlungen
1843German
Sanctorum septem dormientium historia
1741Latin
Seder ḳushiyot ṿe-terutsim u-derasḥot shel tinoḳot
Y. M. of Berdichev
1879Yiddish
Sefer Hilula raba
1876Hebrew
Sefer Hilula raba : ... shir u-shevaḥah bi-shevaḥ ... R.Sh.b.Y. ...
1846Hebrew
Sefer Shivḥe Baʻal Shem Ṭov ... ṿos mir hobin maʻtiḳ geṿezin oyf loshn Ashkenaz dos iz a groys zakh ... .
1850Yiddish
Sgeuluidheacht Chúige Mumhan
1895Irish
Siamsa an ġeiṁriḋ, no, Cois an teallaiġ in Iar gConnaċta
1892Irish
Siegerländische Kinderliedchen
Gustav Eskuche
1897German
Sippurim
1889German
Skazanʹie, strasti i pokhvala svi︠a︡tui︠u︡ mucheniku Borisa i Gli︠e︡ba
1870CHU
Skazka ob Ivanie-tsarevichie, Zhar-ptitsie i o sierom volkie.
1899Russian
Sleeping beauty.
1870
Slovácké děti
Jan Herben
1890Czech
Svenska folk-sagor och äfventyr
1844Swedish
The Assignation and Other Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
1880
The Elder Edda of Saemund Sigfusson, and the Younger Edda of Snorre Sturleson
1911
The Omnibus of Crime
1929
The Younger Edda
1879
The foundation of Waltham Abbey
1861Latin
The little old woman who lived in a shoe
1888
Troiano, il qual tratta la destruttione de Troia
1620Italian