Much gay folklore was lost when Sith Thompson and other prolific folklore academics imposed their. One guy got to choose what stories did or didn’t make the cut in what is now the core resource and system for documenting folklore in an order still used today. Open about his views he admits he omitted many stories in the catalogue because they were ‘perverse’ or ‘unnatural,’” Pete says.
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“In the accompanying Motif Index of Folklore he compiled in the 1920s, and revised in the 1950s, he lists ‘Homosexuality’ and ‘Lesbianism’ in a section called “Unnatural Perversions” with bestiality and incest. “Unfortunately by his own accounts, Stith Thompson brought with him to the editing his own sense of right and wrong. Stith Thompson, an American Scholar and Folklorist, one half of the duo who created this system then got to work on cataloguing, which is where of monumentally erased much of LGBTQ folklore. 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.
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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