Éva Pócs

Éva Pócs (born 1936 ) is a Hungarian ethnographer and folklorist.

Education and academic career Éva Pócs was born in 1936. She is the younger sister of botanist Tamás Pócs (born 1936). She began her career at the Néprajzi Múzeum where she was an intern between 1959 and 1960. she joined the curatorial staff of the in Szolnok. 2009: Honorary membership of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR)

Pócs is a past president of the Folklore Section of the Hungarian Ethnographic Societyhu (a post currently held by Dániel Bárth).

Publications Her publications in English include: Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-Eastern and Central Europe (1989) Between the Living and the Dead: A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age (1999) (co-author) Communicating with the Spirits (2005) (editor) Witchcraft, Mythologies and Persecution, with Gabor Klaniczay. (editor) Christian Demonology And Popular Mythology : Demons, Spirits, Witches, with Gabor Klaniczay.

Fairies and Witches was deemed an "important monograph" on the subject of the link between folklore on fairies and belief in witches, by Hilda Ellis Davidson, especially as it covered the folklore in regions such as Hungary and Southwestern Europe whose language are "Europe not normally accessible" to many readers.