Description 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, doppelg ngers, 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 reali.
New York Review Of Books The secret commonwealth: of elves, fauns, and fairies, paperback/robert kirk
