L. Roy Terwilliger

L. Roy Terwilliger is the author of Cuban Folk-Lore, a book published in Havana in 1908. The work explores superstition, witchcraft, indigenous history, and religious shrines in Cuba, and it has remained available through public-domain archives and audiobook projects.

Very little biographical information about Terwilliger is easy to confirm from reliable online sources. Based on the sources available here, the safest picture is of an early 20th-century writer or observer whose reputation rests almost entirely on this single surviving book.

That scarcity makes the work itself the main introduction to its author. Cuban Folk-Lore stands out less as a conventional literary career marker than as a snapshot of how one English-language writer described Cuban popular beliefs and cultural traditions at the time.