alexseanchai | (no subject)

Pertinent to idea number this-is-getting-ridiculous: does anyone have links or recs for pre-1923 tellings of fairy/folktales of non-European origin, especially those with female protagonists? Ideally translated to English without having been filtered through the European/USian lens, but I suspect I'm asking for the moon on a platter in the previous sentence and the sun and stars for a crown in this one. (Yes, I will be Project Gutenberging after I get home and finish my homework.)

Will I be fucking anything up if I femslash up those stories like I want to do forex Cinderella/Rapunzel, or should I stick to femslashing (and racebending) stories of European and white-American origin?

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I know not on archives, but there are probably many of the ones you seek in the place Gutenburg calls home. Also, possibly, archive.org.

I don't see any reason not to femslash fairy tales in the public domain. I am not an expert on cultural appropriation, thouh, so I have no idea if doing so would be horrible to their origins.