IN 1691, Robert Kirk compiled a study of the fairies and other spirits that he believed populated his remote corner of Scotland. The brief manuscript — which would not be published until 1815, when Walter Scott brought it out in an edition titled The Secret Commonwealth — was written at the end of a fraught […]
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