#canid-shaped

folks love to say “it’s up for debate” (quotes from the book below that reference Heathcliff)

- “dark-skinned g***y”

- “g***y brat”

- spoke with “some gibberish that nobody could understand” (non-European language)

- skin tone described as “dark, almost as if it came from the devil”

- referred to as “a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway” (“lascar” was a term used for Indian and Southeast Asian sailors)

Additionally the Brontë Parsonage Museum themselves have acknowledged that he may have been of “black African descent”.

They also suggested that Brontë was likely to have been inspired by historical figures like Fredrick Douglas, and that later interpretations of the book reflect changing cultural comfort (ex. people like this movie director imagining Heathcliff as white because she always imagined herself as Cathrine which is something she stated btw).