The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairiesKirk, Robert
Science
The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies
Kirk, Robert
Clairvoyance; Fairies; Parapsychology
5. THEIR Apparell and Speech is like that of the People and Countrey
under which they live: so are they seen to wear Plaids and variegated
Garments in the Highlands of Scotland, and Suanochs therefore in
Ireland. They speak but litle, and that by way of whistling, clear,
not rough. The verie Divels conjured in any Countrey, do answer in
the Language of the Place; yet sometimes the Subterraneans speak
more distinctly than at other times. Ther Women are said to Spine
very fine, to Dy, to Tossue, and Embroyder: but whither it is as
manuall Operation of substantiall refined Stuffs, with apt and solid
Instruments, or only curious Cob-webs, impalpable Rainbows, and a
fantastic Imitation of the Actions of more terrestricall Mortalls,
since it transcended all the Senses of the Seere to discerne
whither, I leave to conjecture as I found it.
6. THERE Men travell much abroad, either presaging or aping the
dismall and tragicall Actions of some amongst us; and have also many
disastorous Doings of their own, as Convocations, Fighting, Gashes,
Wounds, and Burialls, both in the Earth and Air. They live much
longer than wee; yet die at last, or [at] least vanish from that
State. ’Tis ane of their Tenets, that nothing perisheth, but (as the
Sun and Year) every Thing goes in a Circle, lesser or greater, and
is renewed and refreshed in its Revolutions; as ’tis another, that
every Bodie in the Creation moves, (which is a sort of Life;) and
that nothing moves, but [h]as another Animal moving on it; and so on,
to the utmost minutest Corpuscle that’s capable to be a Receptacle of
Life.
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