The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairiesKirk, Robert
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The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies
Kirk, Robert
Clairvoyance; Fairies; Parapsychology
IN the nixt Country to that of my former Residence, about the Year
1676, when there was some Scarcity of Graine, a marvelous Illapse and
Vision strongly struck the Imagination of two Women in one Night,
living at a good Distance from one another, about a Treasure hid
in a Hill, called SITHBHRUAICH, or Fayrie-hill. The Appearance of
a Treasure was first represented to the Fancy, and then an audible
Voyce named the Place where it was to their awaking Senses. Whereupon
both arose, and meitting accidentallie at the Place, discovered their
Designe; and joyntly digging, found a Vessell as large as a Scottish
Peck, full of small Pieces of good Money, of ancient Coyn; which
halving betuixt them, they sold in Dish-fulls for Dish-fulls of Meall
to the Countrey People. Very many of undoubted Credit saw, and had
of the Coyn to this Day. But whither it was a good or bad Angell,
one of the subterranean People, or the restless Soul of him who hid
it, that discovered it, and to what End it was done, I leave to the
Examination of others.
11. THESE Subterraneans have Controversies, Doubts, Disputs, Feuds,
and Siding of Parties; there being some Ignorance in all Creatures,
and the vastest created Intelligences not compassing all Things.
As to Vice and Sin, whatever their own Laws be, sure, according to
ours, and Equity, natural, civil, and reveal’d, they transgress and
commit Acts of Injustice, and Sin, by what is above said, as to
their stealling of Nurses to their Children, and that other sort
of Plaginism in catching our Children away, (may seem to heir some
Estate in those invisible Dominions,) which never returne. For the
Inconvenience of their Succubi, who tryst with Men, it is abominable;
but for Swearing and Intemperance, they are not observed so subject
to those Irregularities, as to Envy, Spite, Hypocracie, Lieing, and
Dissimulation.
12. AS our Religion oblidges us not to make a peremptory and curious
Search into these Obstrusenesses, so that the Histories of all Ages
give as many plain Examples of extraordinary Occurrances as make
a modest Inquiry not contemptable. How much is written of Pigme’s,
Fairies, Nymphs, Syrens, Apparitions, which tho not the tenth Part
true, yet could not spring of nothing! Even English Authors relate
(of) Barry Island, in Glamorganshire, that laying your Ear into
a Clift of the Rocks, blowing of Bellows, stricking of Hammers,
clashing of Armour, fyling of Iron, will be heard distinctly ever
since Merlin inchaunted those subterranean Wights to a solid manuall
forging of Arm’s to Aurelius Ambrosius and his Brittans, till he
returned; which Merlin being killed in a Battell, and not coming to
loose the Knot, these active Vulcans are there ty’d to a perpetuall
Labour. But to dip no deeper into this Well, I will nixt give some
Account how the Seer my Informer comes to have this secret Way of
Correspondence beyond other Mortalls.
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