the minister who wrote down too much about the fairies and got taken — Doon Hill, 1692

Proper documented this one, which is why it gets under my skin. Robert Kirk, real man, Episcopalian minister of Aberfoyle in the Trossachs, Gaelic scholar. Around 1691 he writes a manuscript called The Secret Commonwealth — basically a field guide to the fairies, the Sìth, second sight, all the High……