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Robert Kirk (9 December 1644 – 14 May 1692) was 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 called Kirk's collection of supernatural tales one of the most important and significant works on the subject of fairies and second sight.

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  • Robert Kirk (es)
  • Robert Kirk (béaloideasóir) (ga)
  • Robert Kirk (fr)
  • Robert Kirk (folclorista) (it)
  • Robert Kirk (folklorist) (en)
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  • Robert Kirk (Aberfoyle, Perthshire, 9 de diciembre de 1644 – , Stirling, 14 de mayo de 1692) fue un eclesiástico, demonólogo, filólogo experto en idioma gaélico escocés y folklorista escocés, famoso autor de The Secret Commonwealth, un tratado sobre los cuentos de hadas. (es)
  • Robert Kirk, né le 9 décembre 1644 à Aberfoyle, Perthshire, Écosse, et mort dans cette même localité le 14 mai 1692, est un pasteur et érudit écossais, auteur de La République mystérieuse des elfes, faunes, fées et autres semblables (en anglais : The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies), ouvrage de référence sur le monde de la féerie. L'auteur britannique Philip Pullman s'en est inspiré pour écrire et intituler le deuxième tome de sa Trilogie de la Poussière, The Secret Commonwealth (2019, traduit en français sous le titre La Communauté des esprits). (fr)
  • Robert Kirk (Aberfoyle, 9 dicembre 1644 – Doon Hill, 14 maggio 1692) fu un ministro di culto presbiteriano, studioso ed esperto di folclore, soprattutto conosciuto per la sua opera The Secret Commonwealth, una speculazione sull'esistenza della magia e degli spiriti, sul piccolo popolo e dei loro regni fatati, e su un tipo di percezione extrasensoriale, descritta come caratteristica delle comunità delle Highlands scozzesi. (it)
  • Bhí Robert Kirk (9 Nollaig 1644 - 14 Bealtaine 1692) ina mhinistir, ina scoláire Gaelach agus ina bhéaloideasóir. Is fearr aithne air as The Secret Commonwealth, bailiúchán de bhéaloideas a bhailigh sé i 1691-1692 agus a foilsíodh in 1815. Aiste ar fhinscéalta agus béaloideas atá san tráchtas seo, a phléann le sióga, draíocht caillí, taibhsí, fios , aireachtáil eischéadfacha curtha síos ag mhuintir na Gaeltachta in Albain mar fheiniméan. D'ainmnigh an béaloideasóir Stewart Sanderson agus an miotaseolaí Marina Warner bailiúchán scéalta osnádúrtha Kirk ar cheann de na saothair is tábhachtaí agus is suntasaí ar ábhar na sióg agus an fheasa. (ga)
  • Robert Kirk (9 December 1644 – 14 May 1692) was 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 called Kirk's collection of supernatural tales one of the most important and significant works on the subject of fairies and second sight. (en)
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  • Robert Kirk (en)
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  • Robert Kirk (en)
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  • Doon Hill, Aberfoyle, Stirling, Scotland (en)
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  • Aberfoyle, Stirling, Scotland (en)
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