Robert Kirk ~ Walker Between the Worlds
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RJ Stewart’s definitive annotated edition of the famous notebook on Scottish folkloric faery tradition from the year 1692, hand written by the Rev. Robert Kirk not long before his mysterious death. The notebook is entitled “The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies.”
A New Edition of The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies
RJ Stewart's definitive annotated edition of the famous notebookon Scottish folkloric faery tradition from the year 1692, handwritten by the Rev. Robert Kirk not long before his mysterious death. The notebook is entitled "The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies."
This is the only edition, out of several published over the years with widely varying accuracy, that provides a clear commentary on the practical magical and initiatory aspects of Robert Kirk's text.Many insights into Faery and Crossroads magic are given in this book, which includes Kirk's original text in a slightly modernized version for the contemporary reader, and detailed notes, interpretations and commentary, from RJ. Stewart, chapter by chapter, plus valuable additional material in a set of appendices.
This 2007 reissue is a complete and newly revised edition of the book first published in 1990.