Fairies and witches at the boundary of South-Eastern and Central Europe

by Éva Pócs

Folklore Fellows Communications; no. 243.

Fairies and witches in the Balkan Peninsula and Hungary.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [88]-95)

95 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Dr. Éva Pócs (born 1936) is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology at Janus Pannonius University, in Pécs, Hungary. She is also a past president of the Folklore Section of the Hungarian Ethnographic Society (Magyar Néprajzi Társaság).

Pócs is the author of several books dealing with supernatural beliefs and patterns of communication in early modern Europe. In 2004 she was awarded the Herder Prize. She received her PhD degree in 1982 and her DSc in 1998.