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Robert Kirk (9 December 1644 – 14 May 1692) was a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight, a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands.
Jul 3, 2019 · Robert Kirk was a Scottish minister who compiled the lore and beliefs of his parishioners about fairyland and fairies. His essay, The Secret Commonwealth, was published by Walter Scott and influenced writers from Scott to Pullman.
Feb 10, 2019 · The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies, by Robert Kirk and Andrew Lang (London, 1893), in 166 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. Kirk was an inquisitive 17th-century Scottish minister, who investigated and described accounts of beings "of a middle nature" between humans and angels.
Explore the life and writings of Robert Kirk, a Gaelic scholar and minister who believed in the existence of fairies and angels. Learn how he used folklore, science and Neo-Platonic philosophy to describe the (super)natural worlds and their intersections.
Jan 15, 2020 · Born in 1644 in Aberfoyle, a parish of Perthshire, Scotland, Reverend Robert Kirk is remembered for apparently making great strides in bridging the gap between the human and faery realms. He was the seventh son of his parents James and Mary, and went on to become a very intelligent, studious man.
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Oct 31, 2022 · As we approach the last day of the spooky season, I find myself rereading Robert Kirk’s 17th-century classic of fairy lore, The Secret Commonwealth. This book describes what people in Kirk’s time and community believed fairies were, where and how they lived, what they were able to do, and how they interacted with human beings.
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May 14, 2019 · 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,...
