"They are believed to have nobles and a system of law, but do not display visible religious worship, love, or dedication to God the Blessed Creator of all things. They vanish when His name is called upon, or the name of Jesus is invoked, as all among them that dwell above or inside the Earth bow either willingly or by force (as in Philippians 2, verse 10), and are rendered powerless at the instant they hear the Holy Name."

--Reverend Robert Kirk, on the habits of the fairies or "subterrestrials," as described in THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies (1691; excerpt from CAVERNS, CAULDRONS, AND CONCEALED CREATURES, and translated for ease of reading into contemporary English by Wm. M. Mott, from the 17th century original reproduced in the Eneas McKay Edition of 1933)


"His neighbors regularly watched this fellow vanish at a specific location, and then reappear around an hour later, finding himself almost a bow's shot distant from his vanishing-point. It was in the place that he became unseen, he explained, that the subterrestrials did meet and fight (abduct) him."

--Reverend Robert Kirk, from THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies (1691; excerpt from CAVERNS, CAULDRONS, AND CONCEALED CREATURES, and translated for ease of reading into contemporary English by Wm. M. Mott, from the 17th century original reproduced in the Eneas McKay Edition of 1933)