The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies_图书大全
The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies
ISBN: 9781596053472
出版社: Cosimo
出版年: 2005-11-30
页数: 128
定价: USD 19.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
These Subterraneans have Controverfies, Doubts, Difputes, Feuds, and Siding of Parties... As to Vice and Sin, whatever their own Laws be... they tranfgrefs and commit Acts of Injuftice... -from Chapter 11
As a study of 17th-century folklore, this mysterious and remarkable text is fascinating. As a document of the popular mindset of a time in which the odd or the outcast were still condemned and punished as witches, it is wholly astonishing. Robert Kirk's "A Study in Folk-Lore and Psychical Research" dates from 1691, and is perhaps a hallucinatory and delusional labor of love by a minister obsessed with psychic phenomena.
Here, Kirk's treatise is accompanied by commentary written in 1893 by folklorist Andrew Lang that both celebrates Kirk's passion and wonders at his "savage metaphysics."
By turns bizarre and enlightening, this little book continues to bewitch today's readers.
