Witchcraft & Folk Magic
PUBLIC DOMAINThe Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies
- Original publication
- 1893
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 76
- File size
- 197.1 KB
A Highland minister describes the subterranean people believed to inhabit an invisible commonwealth, recording second sight, changelings and perilous contact across worlds.
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Written in 1691 by Scottish minister Robert Kirk, this remarkable treatise records Highland beliefs concerning elves, fairies, second sight and an invisible population existing beside humanity. Kirk presents the material with an observer’s seriousness, describing bodies, customs, abductions and exchanges between worlds. Later legend claimed that the author himself was taken by the beings he studied. Whether folklore or metaphysical speculation, the text remains a narrow door left open in the hills, with no certainty about what passed through.
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Seventeenth-century Scottish Highlands; 1893 edition
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