wrote her only novel, The Road Home. From 1957 onwards she published a four volume study of Scottish National Festivals, The Silver Bough, echoing Frazer's title The Golden Bough. This treasury of Scottish folklore and folk belief covers both the principal national festivals as well as many local ones and was the result of a lifetime of research. In 2008 British Youth Music Theatre adapted the work for a stage production at the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. Scottish composer Gerard McBurney collaborated with Scottish poet Iain Finlay Macleod, director Kath Burlinson and choreographer Struan Leslie on the adaptation. In 1962 McNeill was awarded an MBE for services to Scottish culture. She died in Edinburgh on 22 February 1973. Bibliography McNeill, F. Marian (1957–1968). The Silver Bough: a Four Volume Study of the National and Local Festivals of Scotland, Vol. 1–4. William MacLellan, Glasgow. Paperback edition, Volume I Scottish Folk-Lore and Folk-Belief Volume II A Calendar of Scottish National Festivals, Candlemas to Harvest Home Volume III A Calendar of Scottish National Festivals, Halloween to Yule Volume IV the Local Festivals of Scotland Iona: A History of the Island. Hardback Blackie & Son. 1st Edition 1920, 2nd Edition 1935, 3rd Edition 1946, Later updates With F J Wakefield An Inquiry in Ten Towns in England and Wales into the Protection of Minor Girls (1916) The Road Home (1932) Cookery books (2004) The Book of Breakfasts (1932) Recommended Recipes (1948) The Scots Cellar, Its Traditions and Lore (1956) Recipes from Scotland (1946) References External links F McNeill on About Orkney Saltire society page 1885 births 1973 deaths Scottish folklorists Scottish Renaissance People from Orkney Scottish novelists Edwardian era 19th-century Scottish people 20th-century British writers 20th-century British women writers 20th-century Scottish writers 20th-century Scottish women writers Women food writers Members of the Order of the British Empire Alumni of the University of Glasgow Scottish women activists Scottish activists Scottish suffragettes Scottish National Party politicians Scottish nationalists Women folklorists