The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies

Chapter 13: NOTE.

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The text collects and records traditional beliefs and eyewitness accounts about elves, fauns, fairies, and related supernatural beings in local folk practice. It presents descriptions of apparitions, abductions, household spirits, rituals, charms, and explanations locals used to interpret encounters with the invisible world. The author interweaves personal observation, secondhand reports, and theoretical reflections on the nature of such beings, perception, and the boundaries between natural and supernatural. A later editor supplements the manuscript with an introduction and notes that situate the material, discuss sources, and clarify obscure references.

NOTE.

In trying to collect evidence as to the Rerrick “evil spirit” from Kirk-Session Records, I have been most kindly assisted by the Rev. Mr. M‘Conachie, Minister of Rerrick. Mr. M‘Conachie finds that only two parishes in the Stewartry, Kells and Girthon, have records containing the years 1695, 1696. The records of Rerrick do not go so far back. We are therefore left to the pamphlet of 1696, by Telfair, which is an unusually business-like statement, the names of attesting witnesses being added in the marginal notes. For phenomena singularly similar to those of Rerrick, Obeah, by Mr. H. J. Bell, may be consulted. (Obeah, Sampson Low & Co., London, 1889, p. 93.)