'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

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Originally Posted by jason taylor

You wrote ghost stories and fantasy stories. Beowulf is a fantasy story to us because we do not believe in monsters the way Saxons did, or we believe in different kinds of monsters. I am not clear if it is properly defined as fantasy if it was not originally intended as such.

Nope. You are confusing two sentences. I never claimed that 'fantasy' was an ancient genre--- although it is pretty old. I simply wrote that 'ghost stories' are common across most cultures and have been for a very , very long time.

Ghost stories have been told in pretty much every human culture, for as long as anyone can recall.

Beowulf is your example. I never mentioned it. It’s also not a ghost story. You don’t seem to regard it as a "fantasy" (by which I assume you think that most of the audience took it literally- which I’m not so sure about, not by the time it was written down by Christianized Saxons).