Robert Kirk (9 December 1644 – 14 May 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 called Kirk's collection of supernatural tales one of the most important and significant works on the subject of fairies and second sight. Christian philosopher and religious studies scholar David Bentley Hart has praised Kirk for writing The Secret Commonwealth to defend "harmless Scottish country folk who innocently dabbled in the lore of their culture" and "found themselves arraigned by Presbyterian courts for practicing the black arts." (From Wikipedia)
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Kirk, Robert, 1641?-1692: The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies (London: David Nutt, 1893), ed. by Andrew Lang
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Kirk, Robert, 1641?-1692: Bible. Irish. (A Lunnduin : ar na chur a gcló re R. Ebheringhtham, ag na seachd réultaibh sa tsráid da ngoirthear, Ave-Maria, abhfochair Luid-gheata, an bhlía. daóis an Tigh, 1690), also by William Bedell, Murtagh King, Dennis Sheridan, Andrew Sall, Narcissus Marsh, and Huilliam O'Domhnuill (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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