The Secret Commonwealth Real Fairies in History

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People today think of fairies as little winged pixie girls, but this is not how those who saw them in history typically described them. The Reverend Robert Kirk wrote a treatise on the fairy people as they were known in the Scottish lowlands, and offers us a more evidence-based description of these elusive creatures. • • Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/user?u=3375417 • Donate on Paypal: https://ThinkAnomalous.com/support.html • Website: https://ThinkAnomalous.com • Full transcript audio: https://ThinkAnomalous.com/secret-com... • Facebook: / thinkanomalous • Twitter: / think_anomalous • Instagram: / think.anomalous • Check out more from our illustrator, V.R. Laurence: https://vrlaurence.com • • Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau. • Illustration by V.R. Laurence (https://vrlaurence.com) • Research by Clark Murphy. • Music by Josh Chamberland. • Animation by Brendan Barr. • Sound design by Will Mountain and Josh Chamberland. • #Entities #SecretCommonwealth #RobertKirk • Sources: • Evans-Wentz, Walter. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Mineaola, NY: Dover, 2002. • https://archive.org/details/fairyfait.... • Henderson, Lizanne and Edward J. Cowan. Scottish Fairy Belief: A History. Dundurn, 2001. • https://books.google.com/books?id=Iok.... • Janice. “Symbols on Reverend Kirk’s Gravestone in Aberfoyle Cemetery: Thistle, Shepherd’s crook and Dagger.” Scotiana. October 22, 2009. https://scotiana.com/symbols-on-rever.... • Kirk, Robert. The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. London: David Nutt, 1893. https://books.google.com/books?id=nN9.... • https://archive.org/details/Kirk1893C.... • https://play.google.com/store/books/d.... • Kirk, Robert. The Secret Commonwealth A Short Treatise of Charms and Spells. London: The Folklore Society, (1893) 1976. https://amazon.com/Secret-Commonwealt.... • Kirk, Robert. The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. New York, NY: New York Review of Books, (1893) 2007. http://worldcat.org/oclc/1112655740. • Kirk, Robert. The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies: A Study in Folk-Lore Psychical Research. Franklin Classics Trade Press, (1893) 2018. https://amazon.com/Secret-Commonwealt.... • Sanderson, Stewart. A Prospect of Faeryland. Folklore 75, no. 1 (Spring 1964). 1-18. http://jstor.org/stable/1258872. • Scott, Walter. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. London: John Murray, 1830. https://sacred-texts.com/pag/scott/in.... • https://archive.org/details/dli.benga.... • Spence, Lewis. British Fairy Origins: the Genesis and Development of Fairy Legends in British Tradition. Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1981. • https://archive.org/details/in.ernet..... • Stott, Louis. “Robert Kirk.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/15651. • Vallée, Jacques. Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers. Brisbane, Australia: Daily Grail Publishing. (1969) 2014. https://archive.org/details/PassportT.... • Young, Robin and Karyn Miller-Medzon. “‘It sounds like Magic, but it’s Not’: Many Icelanders believe in Elves.” WBUR: Here and Now. December 24, 2019. https://wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/12/2.... • This video uses sound effects downloaded from stockmusic.com.

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