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The Secret Commonwealth

Author : Robert Kirk
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ISBN 13 : 9781456355852
Total Pages : 84 pages
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Download or read book The Secret Commonwealth written by Robert Kirk and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-30 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive modern translation of the classic 1691 text; The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies by The Reverend Robert Kirk. For more than three centuries, The Secret Commonwealth has endured as the definitive textbook on fairies and their interaction with human beings. It was written by a protestant minister, Robert Kirk, who was surprisingly neutral in his treatment of the subject. In 1893 the acclaimed writer Andrew Lang reprinted The Secret Commonwealth adding his own introduction which far surpassed the length of Kirk's original. The present edition includes both. In this edition, Kenneth Brennan has modernized Kirk's archaic language without detracting from its original charm. His extensive notes illuminate both texts with respect to advancements in our understanding of history over the past century. Cover art has been provided by Selina Fenich

The Secret Commonwealth

Author : Robert Kirk
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681373564
Total Pages : 145 pages
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Download or read book The Secret Commonwealth written by Robert Kirk and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, & Fairies, 1691

Author : Robert Kirk
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies

Author : Robert Kirk
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Total Pages : 182 pages
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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies

Author : Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department Robert Kirk
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293375716
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies written by Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department Robert Kirk and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: A Study In Folk-lore & Psychical Research; Volume 8 Of BibliothEque De Carabas Robert Kirk, Andrew Lang D. Nutt, 1893 Body, Mind & Spirit; Parapsychology; General; Body, Mind & Spirit / Parapsychology / General; Clairvoyance; Fairies; Parapsychology

The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies

Author : Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department Robert Kirk
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ISBN 13 : 9781306957601
Total Pages : 94 pages
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Download or read book The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies written by Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department Robert Kirk and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 & Fairies

Author : Robert Kirk
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Total Pages : 64 pages
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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849678318
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies written by Andrew Lang and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1933 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research

Author : Robert Kirk
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ISBN 13 : 9781376295863
Total Pages : 176 pages
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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies

Author : Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department Robert Kirk
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781296580353
Total Pages : 176 pages
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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies

Author : Robert Kirk
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ISBN 13 : 9781906621315
Total Pages : 92 pages
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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies

Author : Robert KIRK (Minister of Aberfoyle.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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The Secret Commonwealth

Author : Robert Kirk
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681373572
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book The Secret Commonwealth written by Robert Kirk and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, & Fairies. A Study in Folk-lore & Psychical Research

Author : Robert Kirk (Minister of Aberfoyle.)
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Total Pages : pages
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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies. A Study in Folk-lore and Psychical Research ... The Comment by A. Lang. L.P.

Author : Robert KIRK (Minister of Aberfoyle.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, & Fairies a Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research. The Comment by Andrew Lang. A. 1893

Author : Robert Kirk
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Robert Kirk

Author : R. J. Stewart
Publisher : R J Stewart Books
ISBN 13 : 9780979140242
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book Robert Kirk written by R. J. Stewart and published by R J Stewart Books. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition in modern English includes a detailed commentary. Comparisons are made between the ancient rites and powers of fairy tradition and second sight, and those of shamanism, Native American tradition, Celtic myth and legend, and perennial magical arts.