
The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies
by Robert Kirk
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Chapters (108)
- The Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns & Fairies
- Dedication. TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
- The Fairy Minister.
- INTRODUCTION.
- I. The History of the Book and Author.
- II. The Secret Commonwealth.
- III. “The Subterranean Inhabitants.”
- IV. Fairyland and Hades.
- V. Fairies and Psychical Research.
- VI. Second Sight and “Telepathy.”
- CHAPTER I. OF THE SUBTERRANEAN INHABITANTS.
- A SUCCINT ACCOMPT
- NOTE.
- NOTES.
- Note (a), p. xvi.—“The Psychical Society.”
- Note (b), p. xxx.—“Their speech is a kind of whistling.”
- Note (c), p. xl.—“Not long after the Spanish conquest of Peru.”
- Note (d), p. l.
- Note (e), p. lvii.—“Children at séances.”
- Note (f), p. lxii.—“The pricking of witches.”
- Note (a), p. 8.—“These Arrows that fly in the Dark.”
- Note (b), p. 11.—“Milk thorow a hair-tedder.”
- Note (c), p. 19.—“The Wreath (wraith) ... is only exuvious fumes of the Man, ... exhaled and congealed into a various likeness.”
- Note (d), p. 23.—“Fairy hills.”
- Note (e), p. 30.—“Master Great-rake, the Irish Stroaker.”
- POSTSCRIPT.
- FOOTNOTES:
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- [Pg 1]
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