The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies — John Shaqi
The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairiesKirk, Robert
Science
The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies
Kirk, Robert
Clairvoyance; Fairies; Parapsychology
7. THEY are said to have aristocraticall Rulers and Laws, but no
discernible Religion, Love, or Devotion towards God, the blessed
Maker of all: they disappear whenever they hear his Name invocked,
or the Name of JESUS, (at which all do bow willinglie, or by
constraint, that dwell above or beneath within the Earth, Philip.
2. 10;) nor can they act ought at that Time after hearing of that
sacred Name. The TABHAISVER, or Seer, that corresponds with this
kind of Familiars, can bring them with a Spel to appear to himselfe
or others when he pleases, as readily as Endor Witch to those of her
Kind. He tells, they are ever readiest to go on hurtfull Errands,
but seldome will be the Messengers of great Good to Men. He is not
terrified with their Sight when he calls them, but seeing them in a
surpryze (as often he does) frights him extreamly. And glaid would
he be quite of such, for the hideous Spectacles seen among them;
as the torturing of some Wight, earnest ghostly stairing Looks,
Skirmishes, and the like. They do not all the Harme which appearingly
they have Power to do; nor are they perceaved to be in great Pain,
save that they are usewally silent and sullen. They are said to have
many pleasant toyish Books; but the operation of these Peices only
appears in some Paroxisms of antic corybantic Jolity, as if ravisht
and prompted by a new Spirit entering into them at that Instant,
lighter and mirrier than their own. Other Books they have of involved
abstruse Sense, much like the Rosurcian [Rosycrucian] Style. They
have nothing of the Bible, save collected Parcells for Charms and
counter Charms; not to defend themselves withall, but to operate on
other Animals, for they are a People invulnerable by our Weapons;
and albeit Were-wolves and Witches true Bodies are (by the union
of the Spirit of Nature that runs thorow all, echoing and doubling
the Blow towards another) wounded at Home, when the astrial assumed
Bodies are stricken elsewhere; as the Strings of a Second Harp, tune
to ane unison, Sounds, though only ane be struck; yet these People
have not a second, or so gross a Bodie at all, to be so pierced; but
as Air, which when divyded units againe; or if they feel Pain by
a Blow, they are better Physicians than wee, and quickly cure it.
They are not subject to sore Sicknesses, but dwindle and decay at a
certain Period, all about ane Age. Some say their continual Sadness
is because of their pendulous State, (like those Men, Luc. 13. 2.
6.) as uncertain what at the last Revolution will become of them,
when they are lock’t up into ane unchangeable Condition; and if they
have any frolic Fitts of Mirth, ’tis as the constrained grinning of a
Mort-head, or rather as acted on a Stage, and moved by another, ther
[than?] cordially comeing of themselves. But other Men of the Second
Sight, being illiterate, and unwary in their Observations, learn
from those; one averring those subterranean People to be departed
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