Hilda R. Ellis Davidson (1914-2006) was President of the Folklore Society. She published a number of books, including many on Norse and Anglo-Saxon mythology. Dr Davidson was a Lecturer and formerly Vice-President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and was the general editor of Mistletoe Books, published by the Folklore Society.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Yorkshire Heritage: The Family Background2 An Artist’s Daughter: Parents and Childhood3 Growing Up and Making Out: The Imaginary World of the Briggs Sisters4 Feats and Quests: The War Years5 Search for the Hidden People: The Barn House, Burford6 Tales and Traditions: Work in Folklore7 Golden Harvest: The Last YearsAppendices1 Her Account of Her Career2 An Artist’s Daughter3 Eric Notes4 Selected Poems1 A Handsome Sailor Came to Woo Me2 If You Eat of Fairy Fruit3 I Met a Fairy on the Hill4 I Walked or Slept, I Knew not Which5 The Sun Shines Warm upon My Limbs6 Triolet: What a Lively Piece of Clay7 Occupied Territory8ElspethChapter NotesPublished WorkIndex

Hilda R. Ellis Davidson (1914-2006) was President of the Folklore Society. She published a number of books, including many on Norse and Anglo-Saxon mythology. Dr Davidson was a Lecturer and formerly Vice-President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and was the general editor of Mistletoe Books, published by the Folklore Society.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Yorkshire Heritage: The Family Background2 An Artist’s Daughter: Parents and Childhood3 Growing Up and Making Out: The Imaginary World of the Briggs Sisters4 Feats and Quests: The War Years5 Search for the Hidden People: The Barn House, Burford6 Tales and Traditions: Work in Folklore7 Golden Harvest: The Last YearsAppendices1 Her Account of Her Career2 An Artist’s Daughter3 Eric Notes4 Selected Poems1 A Handsome Sailor Came to Woo Me2 If You Eat of Fairy Fruit3 I Met a Fairy on the Hill4 I Walked or Slept, I Knew not Which5 The Sun Shines Warm upon My Limbs6 Triolet: What a Lively Piece of Clay7 Occupied Territory8ElspethChapter NotesPublished WorkIndex

Hilda R. Ellis Davidson (1914-2006) was President of the Folklore Society. She published a number of books, including many on Norse and Anglo-Saxon mythology. Dr Davidson was a Lecturer and formerly Vice-President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and was the general editor of Mistletoe Books, published by the Folklore Society.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Yorkshire Heritage: The Family Background2 An Artist’s Daughter: Parents and Childhood3 Growing Up and Making Out: The Imaginary World of the Briggs Sisters4 Feats and Quests: The War Years5 Search for the Hidden People: The Barn House, Burford6 Tales and Traditions: Work in Folklore7 Golden Harvest: The Last YearsAppendices1 Her Account of Her Career2 An Artist’s Daughter3 Eric Notes4 Selected Poems1 A Handsome Sailor Came to Woo Me2 If You Eat of Fairy Fruit3 I Met a Fairy on the Hill4 I Walked or Slept, I Knew not Which5 The Sun Shines Warm upon My Limbs6 Triolet: What a Lively Piece of Clay7 Occupied Territory8ElspethChapter NotesPublished WorkIndex