Morwen--I have no problem considering 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' a folk tale. Who is to say that there is no room to add a recent story to the lore? I don't know folklore well enough to comment on whether HOND could/should be classified as retelling an archetypal story.

Also along the line of recent tellings of old stories, it's only a matter of time until Aesop's Fables or are retold according to the computer age, though I suspect it's already so for example in the gaming world and for Sci-Fi or Space specialty TV channels. Even mainstream: Does anyone remember Rocket Robin Hood? Not exactly classic folklore, but children of a certain generation got their steal-from-rich-give-to-poor stories there. It's not about disability in particular, I raise it just to illustrate that current authorship doesn't mean it can't serve the role(s) of folklore.