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
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Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales
Robert Hamill Nassau
1912
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Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folk Tales Retold
Charles A Eastman, Elaine Goodale Eastman, Edwin Willard Deming
1928
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Wonder Book
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1800
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Wonder Tales from Many Lands
Katharine Pyle
1920
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Zuñi Folk Tales
Frank Hamilton Cushing, John Wesley Powell
1901
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1570Italian
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Jacobe, Herzogin von Jülich-Kleve-Berg, 1558-1597, inscriber, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich, 1562-1606, inscriber, Pezzen, Barthlmä, inscriber, Johann Joachim Prack von Asch, Margravine of Burgau Sibylle
1587German
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Juan de Tovar
1582NAH
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Ioannikiy Galyatovskiy
1699
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1780Russian
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Иващенко, Петр Семенович
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1806Russian
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Михайло Максимович
1834Russian
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Украинскія народныя пѣсни, изданныя Михаиломъ Максимовичемъ
Mykhaylo Maksymovych
1834Russian
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Mykola Hatstsuk
1861Ukrainian
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Український збірник І. І. Срезневського, Кн. 1. (1838)
Izmail Ivanovich Sreznevski, Срезневский И.И
1838Russian
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Українські приказки, прислів'я і таке інше (1864)
Матвій Номис
1864Ukrainian
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Українські пісні, видані коштом О.С. Баліної (1863)
Потебня Олександр Опанасович
1863Ukrainian