December 10, 2003

Before there were aliens to abduct hapless rural wanderers, other mysterious beings did the work for them. Here is the story of Robert Kirk .

Interested? How about a walking tour ? Or a free copy of the book (modern translation) that got him into trouble?

  • "Women are yet alive who tell [that] thy were taken away when in child-bed to nurse fairy [spelt ffayrie] children, a lingering voracious image of theirs being left in their place, like their reflection in a mirror, which, as if it were some insatiable spirit in an assumed body, made first semblance to devour the meat, that it cunningly carried by, then left the carcass as it expired, and departed thence, by a natural and common death." well.
  • From link: fairy folk would exact their revenge upon him. It doesn't inspire as I suppose it ought to, but then again, neither did any of the Leprechaun movies. Of course, maybe space aliens are simply a story concocted by the fairy folk...