Elsie Spicer Eells - Fairy Tales Of Brazil (preface)

FAIRY TALES OF BRAZIL.....
This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY.....
Elsie Eusebia Spicer Eells (September 21, 1880 - May 24, 1963)
was an investigator of folklore Iberian root and writer who traveled in the early years of the twentieth century by the Atlantic basin and was notable for the publication of several collections of tales and legends based on the oral tradition of several regions visited, including Brazil and the Azores.

Born Eusebia Spicer in West Winfield, New York, she married Burr Gould Eells. Having traveled in the 1920s and 1930s by several countries as a researcher for The Hispanic Society of America in New York, something unusual about time, Elsie Spicer Eells is the author of numerous works, including Fairy Tales from Brazil (1917), Tales of Giants from Brazil (1918), The Islands of Magic Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales from the Azores (1922), South America's Story (1931) and Tales of Enchantment from Spain (1950). Elsie Spicer Eells died on May 24, 1963, at the age of eighty two. He has collaborated in several periodicals, especially the magazines The Outlook and The Deliniator, both of New York. Part of his work on Brazilian traditional tales is inspired by Sílvio Romero's collection Popular Tales of Brazil.

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