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Fairy Tales from Brazil

by Elsie Spicer Eells

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.

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English

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English

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1917

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Elsie Spicer Eells

United States

Elsie Eusebia Spicer Eells was a researcher of folklore with Iberian roots and a writer who traveled in the early years of the twentieth century across the Atlantic basin and was noted for the publica...

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