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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies by Robert Kirk, M.A., Minister of Aberfoyle. Written before he died in 1692, the work was not published until 1815 after many legends had grown around Kirk’s death, which imagined that he was secreted away by the fairies themselves for revealing their secrets.
Most famous during his own lifetime for publishing one of the first translations of the Bible into Gaelic, Kirk spent much of his professional life collecting the many folklore tales native to Scotland. He believed that these tales of fairies, witches, and ghosts, as well as stories claiming that many Scots were gifted with second sight, or extrasensory perception, were proof that the stories in the Bible were in fact true and supernatural phenomenon in fact existed.
While Kirk died before his collection of otherworldly encounters was published, it is widely regarded by scholars as one of the most important and significant works on fairy folklore and the Scottish belief in second sight. Many of our modern depictions of fairies can find their origins in this fascinating and historically important work.
This edition of The Secret Commonwealth was the second book in a series of limited editions published in 1964 by Helios Book Service. Only 200 copies of this book were printed, this being number 146. This copy is in very good condition. The frontispiece is loose but otherwise binding is tight.
Other volumes in the series available from Dark Star Magick include:
The Stone of the Philosophers: The First Matter
The Magus, Volume 3. The Constellatory Practice, or Talismanic Magic
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