In the late 17th century, a Scottish minister went looking for creatures of "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." Robert Kirk roamed the Highlands, talking to country folk about their encounters with supernatural creatures. This remarkable record of their testimonials offers rare glimpses into a world of everyday magic.
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"A slim quarto-size book (like a paperback novel in boards) and less than a hundred pages of text, this New York Review of Books edition is the first in more than a century and contains a well-written introduction and end notes by Marina Warner. Also included is Kirk's own glossary of "difficult words," in which we learn the 17th-century meanings of adscititious, defaecat, lychnobious and noctambulo." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology"--The Times Literary Supplement
“The importance of Robert Kirk’s manuscript for a deeper understanding of late seventeenth-century Scottish beliefs about fairies and second sight is hard to exaggerate. There is simply no other source with such fulsome detail about the Guid Neighbours…”–Folklore
“Kirk’s ‘Secret Commonwealth’ is one of those books which are well known but hard to come by…His little treatise is a most careful and thorough piece of work, made the more so by the spirit in which it was written…The result is one of the completest descriptions extant of that special phase of popular belief.”–The Times Literary Supplement
"[F]illed with delightful maunderings on seers and second-sighters and ‘glimpses of the moon’…”–The Critic
“[A] cult classic.”–The Glasgow Herald --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
“Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology"--The Times Literary Supplement
“The importance of Robert Kirk’s manuscript for a deeper understanding of late seventeenth-century Scottish beliefs about fairies and second sight is hard to exaggerate. There is simply no other source with such fulsome detail about the Guid Neighbours…”–Folklore
“Kirk’s ‘Secret Commonwealth’ is one of those books which are well known but hard to come by…His little treatise is a most careful and thorough piece of work, made the more so by the spirit in which it was written…The result is one of the completest descriptions extant of that special phase of popular belief.”–The Times Literary Supplement
"[F]illed with delightful maunderings on seers and second-sighters and ‘glimpses of the moon’…”–The Critic
“[A] cult classic.”–The Glasgow Herald --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Excellent book on Fairies and Elves,
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This review is from: The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies - Illustrated (Kindle Edition)
This book superbly describes the other world that exists among us but remains hidden from most people. If you are interested in lore and the land of the Fey, this book will fill in many gaps of knowledge and answer many of your questions about how the fairies live, work and play, and what they have to teach us.
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Truth into one great whole.,
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This review is from: The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies (New York Review Books) (Hardcover)
If you are curious about the link between Christianity and the Fairy Faith of the Celts, this is the one book you must read. Written by a pastor of the middle ages, who also happens to meet the requirements of a scottish seer, Kirk tells things you probably will never read anywhere else!
I find this book to be filled with truth, at least as it was.
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It's beautifull!,
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I've not finished reading the book, but the cover art and the art on the inside pages is beautifull! It is written to well stimulate my sense of wonder and I feel as if the unseen and little people are real!
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