The Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns and Fairies

by Robert Kirk and Robert Kirk

Book Overview

2019 Reprint of 1893 Edition Edited by Andrew Lang. Robert Kirk (1644 -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.) Folklorist Stewart Sanderson and mythologist Marina Warner call Kirk's collection of supernatural tales one of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684224144
• ISBN13: 9781684224142
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Martino Fine Books
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"