Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore

Elsie Spicer Eells

Elsie Spicer Eells was an American researcher of folklore with Iberian roots and a writer who traveled in the early years of the twentieth century across the Atlantic basin. She is noted for the publication of several collections of short stories and legends based on the oral tradition of various regions she visited, including Brazil and the Azores.