Elsie Spicer Eells (September 21, 1880 – May 24, 1963) 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.

[4] She married Burr Gould Eells,[2] a superintendent of schools established by the Presbyterian Board of Missions in Brazil, where she lived for three years.

[4] She was a contributing writer for several New York magazines, including The Outlook and The Delineator.

Elsie Spicer Eells died in Volusia, Florida, on May 24, 1963, at the age of 82.