Robert Kirk
Robert Kirk
Robert Kirkwas a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight, a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands. Folklorist Stewart Sanderson and mythologist Marina Warner call Kirk's collection of supernatural tales one of the most important and significant works on the subject of fairies and second sight...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 December 1644
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My dad would trade monkeys for an alligator -- zoo-to-zoo deals; you'd find someone who needed what you had,