They used the Aarne Thompson Uther Tale Type Index, to catalogue certain folktales by their structure and assigns them AT (Arne Thompson) numbers. “Over one hundred years, very few people edited a catalogue of the world’s folklore with a system which logs different variations of tales across borders around the world,” Pete says. This sparked a considerable push to catalogue stories, from about 1850-1900, before they were lost forever, as people began to read instead of pass stories from generation to generation.Īnd this is where Pete says the filtering of LGBTQ characters began to occur. It is challenging to trace stories further back than the 19th century because it wasn’t until the 1800’s that “Folklorists” became a fully-fledged academic discipline.Īround the Industrial revolution, and the invention of the printing press, some of the earliest Folklorists began to create collections of folklores.Ĭapitalising on listening to storytellers, they began writing down and publishing their stories as collections. MORE FROM FORBES Talking About Your Pronouns Is One Easy Way To Be A Transgender Ally By Jamie Wareham Gay fairytales have always existed, but some have been edited out of history
