The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns, & fairies

About this eBook

Author

Kirk, Robert, 1641?-1692

Title

The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies

Original Publication

uk: David Nutt, 1893.

Credits

Jens Sadowski, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Subject

Fairies

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 75485

Release Date

February 27, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.The Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns & Fairies
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.Untitled
7. 7.Dedication. TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
8. 8.The Fairy Minister.
9. 9.INTRODUCTION. — I. The History of the Book and Author. — II. The Secret Commonwealth. — III. “ The Subterranean Inhabitants. ” — IV. Fairyland and Hades. — V. Fairies and Psychical Research. — VI. Second Sight and “Telepathy.”
10. 10.Untitled
11. 11.Untitled
12. 12.Untitled
13. 13.CHAPTER I. OF THE SUBTERRANEAN INHABITANTS.
14. 14.A SUCCINT ACCOMPT
15. 15.NOTE.
16. 16.NOTES. — Note ( a ), p. xvi. —“The Psychical Society.” — Note ( b ), p. xxx. —“Their speech is a kind of whistling.” — Note ( c ), p. xl. —“Not long after the Spanish conquest of Peru.” — Note ( d ), p. l. — Note ( e ), p. lvii. —“Children at séances .” — Note ( f ), p. lxii. —“The pricking of witches.” — Note ( a ), p. 8. —“These Arrows that fly in the Dark.” — Note ( b ), p. 11. —“Milk thorow a hair-tedder.” — Note ( c ), p. 19. —“The Wreath (wraith) ... is only exuvious fumes of the Man, ... exhaled and congealed into a various likeness.” — Note ( d ), p. 23. —“Fairy hills.” — Note ( e ), p. 30. —“Master Great-rake, the Irish Stroaker.”
17. 17.POSTSCRIPT.
18. 18.FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.Untitled
20. 20.Untitled

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