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| The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert Kirk, Andrew Lang
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Category: Book
Buy New: $10.95 (25.78 RON)
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1483396
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 159605347X
Dewey Decimal Number: 398
EAN: 9781596053472
ASIN: 159605347X
Publication Date: November 1, 2005
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These Subterraneans have Controverfies, Doubts, Difputes, Feuds, and Siding of Parties... As to Vice and Sin, whatever their own Laws be... they tranfgrefs and commit Acts of Injuftice... -from Chapter 11 As a study of 17th-century folklore, this mysterious and remarkable text is fascinating. As a document of the popular mindset of a time in which the odd or the outcast were still condemned and punished as witches, it is wholly astonishing. Robert Kirk's "A Study in Folk-Lore and Psychical Research" dates from 1691, and is perhaps a hallucinatory and delusional labor of love by a minister obsessed with psychic phenomena. Here, Kirk's treatise is accompanied by commentary written in 1893 by folklorist Andrew Lang that both celebrates Kirk's passion and wonders at his "savage metaphysics." By turns bizarre and enlightening, this little book continues to bewitch today's readers.
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Truth into one great whole. September 7, 2008
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.
A Classic in the Field July 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of the must-reads if you're interested in the historical literature of the field.
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