The Secret Lives Of Elves And Faeries
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The Secret Lives Of Elves And Faeries
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Author : John Matthews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Secret Lives Of Elves And Faeries written by John Matthews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fairies categories.
The Secret Lives Of Elves Faeries
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Author : John Matthews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Secret Lives Of Elves Faeries written by John Matthews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Elves categories.
The Secret Lives Of Elves And Faeries
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Author : Robert Kirk
language : en
Publisher: Godsfield Press
Release Date : 2005
The Secret Lives Of Elves And Faeries written by Robert Kirk and has been published by Godsfield Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Elves categories.
Welcome to the magical world of Faery! This book takes readers along on the journeys of the Reverend Robert Kirk, a seventeenth-century vicar of the parish of Aberfoyle, Scotland, into the heart of the faery world.
The Secret Life Of Elves And Faeries
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Author : John Matthews
language : en
Publisher: HarperThorsons
Release Date : 2005-04
The Secret Life Of Elves And Faeries written by John Matthews and has been published by HarperThorsons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04 with Elves categories.
A 17th-century fantasy adventure into the world of faeries--and a mysterious true disappearance.
The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves Fauns Fairies
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Author : Robert Kirk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves Fauns Fairies written by Robert Kirk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Clairvoyance categories.
The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves Fauns And Fairies
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Author : Robert Kirk
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2007
The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves Fauns And Fairies written by Robert Kirk and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Fiction categories.
"The Secret Commonwealth is a guide to fairies, doppelgängers, wraiths, and other beings that its author Robert Kirk, an unusually inquisitive seventeenth-century Scottish minister, identifies as being ?of a middle nature betwixt man and angel.? Circulated in manuscript by its author, whose religious and scientific interests drew him at some genuine personal risk to investigate the hidden realities of the spiritual world, this short work was first published by Sir Walter Scott and then again in the late nineteenth century in an edition prepared by the famous collector of fairy tales, Andrew Lang, and dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson. Nonetheless, Kirk’s work, which is a fine example of English prose, an important document in the history of ideas, and an enchanting introduction to fairy lore has remained a rarity"--Publisher description.
The Secret Commonwealth
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Author : Robert Kirk
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2019-05-14
The Secret Commonwealth written by Robert Kirk and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-14 with Religion categories.
A classic, enchanting document of Scottish folklore about fairies, elves, and other supernatural creatures. Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners’ many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelgängers, wraiths, and other beings of, in Kirk’s words, “a middle nature betwixt man and angel.” For Kirk these stories constituted strong evidence for the reality of a supernatural world, existing parallel to ours, which, he passionately believed, demanded exploration as much as the New World across the seas. Kirk defended these views in The Secret Commonwealth, an essay that was left in manuscript when he died in 1692. It is a rare and fascinating work, an extraordinary amalgam of science, religion, and folklore, suffused with the spirit of active curiosity and bemused wonder that fills Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. The Secret Commonwealth is not only a remarkable document in the history of ideas but a study of enchantment that enchants in its own right. First published in 1815 by Sir Walter Scott, then reedited in 1893 by Andrew Lang, with a dedication to Robert Louis Stevenson, The Secret Commonwealth has long been difficult to obtain—available, if at all, only in scholarly editions. This new edition modernizes the spelling and punctuation of Kirk’s little book and features a wide-ranging and illuminating introduction by the critic and historian Marina Warner, who brings out the originality of Kirk’s contribution and reflects on the ongoing life of fairies in the modern mind.
The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves Fauns And Fairies
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Author : Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department Robert Kirk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-01-01
The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves Fauns And Fairies written by Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department Robert Kirk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Clairvoyance categories.
"Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology."--"Times Literary Supplement "In the late seventeenth century, a Scottish minister went looking for supernatural creatures of "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." Robert Kirk roamed the Highlands, talking to his parishioners and other country folk about their encounters with fairies, wraiths, elves, doppelgangers, and other agents of the spirit world. Magic was a part of everyday life for Kirk and his fellow Highlanders, and this remarkable book offers rare glimpses into their enchanted realm. Left in manuscript form upon the author's death in 1692, this volume was first published in 1815 at the behest of Sir Walter Scott. In 1893, the distinguished folklorist Andrew Lang re-edited the work. Lang's introduction to Kirk's extraordinary blend of science, religion, and superstition is included in this edition. For many years, "The Secret Commonwealth" was hard to find--available, if at all, only in scholarly editions. Academicians as well as lovers of myths and legends will prize this authoritative but inexpensive edition.
The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves Fauns And Fairies
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Author : Robert Kirk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves Fauns And Fairies written by Robert Kirk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Clairvoyance categories.
The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves Fauns Fairies
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Author : Andrew Lang
language : en
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Release Date : 1933
The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves Fauns Fairies written by Andrew Lang and has been published by Jazzybee Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Fiction categories.
Mr. Lang’s book is the most curious imaginable. Written in 1691 by a Scotch divine, it is nothing less than a calm assumption of the existence at that time of a commonwealth of elves, fauns, and fairies, whose government, habits, etc., are minutely described upon the authority of "Men of Second Sight" (it is not clear whether the author himself was one of these by virtue of bis being a seventh son), the method of obtaining which gift is also carefully explained. These fairies are of a middle nature between man and angel; they inhabit subterranean abodes, which they change at each quarter of the year. "They are distributed in tribes and orders, and have children, nurses, marriages, deaths, and burials; their apparel and speech is like that of the people and country under which they live; they are said to have aristocratical rulers and laws, but no discernible religion, love, or devotion towards God," their weapons are most what solid earthly bodies, nothing of iron, but much of stone, like to yellow soft flint spa, shaped liked a barbed arrow-head, but flung like a dart, with great force." The moral character of these "subterraneans" is minutely described and the conclusion is, "But for swearing and intemperance, they are not observed so subject to those irregularities, as to envy, spite, hypocrisy, lying, and dissimulation." The author adds to the evidence given by his friends, etc., a letter from Lord Tarbott to the Hon. Robert Boyle, in which many additional instances of second sight are narrated.