girlwithouthands:

what’s really sad to me is that while women were often the writers and tellers of fairytales, almost all of classic European fairytale academia is dominated by men: the Brothers Grimm, Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Andrew Lang, Jón Árnason, Alexander Afanasyev— fairytales are fundamentally women’s stories, but it’s men who were their collectors, and men who had the final say when these stories appeared in print.