The Secret Life Of Elves And Faeries
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Author | : Robert Kirk |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781590171776 |
"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.
Author | : John Matthews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fairies |
ISBN | : 9780760786390 |
Author | : Robert Kirk |
Publisher | : Godsfield Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Elves |
ISBN | : 9781841812489 |
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.
Author | : John Matthews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Elves |
ISBN | : 9780760786390 |
Author | : John Matthews |
Publisher | : HarperThorsons |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-04 |
Genre | : Elves |
ISBN | : 9780007200719 |
A 17th-century fantasy adventure into the world of faeries--and a mysterious true disappearance.
Author | : Gyo Fujikawa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
A collection of poems and stories about fairies, elves, gnomes, and other magical creatures.
Author | : Julia Rowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2003-08 |
Genre | : Children's stories, English |
ISBN | : 9781858546346 |
Author | : Robert Kirk |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2019-05-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1681373564 |
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.
Author | : Robert Kirk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Clairvoyance |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
In this study, which is first of all a folk-lore study, we pursue principally an anthropo-psychological method of interpreting the Celtic belief in fairies, though we do not hesitate now and then to call in the aid of philology; and we make good use of the evidence offered by mythologies, religions, metaphysics, and physical sciences.