The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairiesKirk, Robert
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The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies
Kirk, Robert
Clairvoyance; Fairies; Parapsychology
2. WE then (the more terrestriall kind have now so numerously planted
all Countreys,) do labour for that abstruse People, as weill as for
ourselves. Albeit, when severall Countreys were unhabitated by us,
these had their easy Tillage above Ground, as we now. The Print of
those Furrous do yet remaine to be seen on the Shoulders of very high
Hills, which was done when the champayn Ground was Wood and Forrest.
THEY remove to other Lodgings at the Beginning of each Quarter of
the Year, so traversing till Doomsday, being imputent and [impotent
of?] staying in one Place, and finding some Ease by so purning
[Journeying] and changing Habitations. Their chamælion-lyke Bodies
swim in the Air near the Earth with Bag and Bagadge; and at such
revolution of Time, SEERS, or Men of the SECOND SIGHT, (Fæmales
being seldome so qualified) have very terrifying Encounters with
them, even on High Ways; who therefoir uswally shune to travell
abroad at these four Seasons of the Year, and thereby have made it
a Custome to this Day among the Scottish-Irish to keep Church duely
evry first Sunday of the Quarter to sene or hallow themselves, their
Corns and Cattell, from the Shots and Stealth of these wandring
Tribes; and many of these superstitious People will not be seen in
Church againe till the nixt Quarter begin, as if no Duty were to be
learned or done by them, but all the Use of Worship and Sermons were
to save them from these Arrows that fly in the Dark.[30]
THEY are distributed in Tribes and Orders, and have Children, Nurses,
Mariages, Deaths, and Burialls, in appearance, even as we, (unless
they so do for a Mock-show, or to prognosticate some such Things
among us.)
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