
Rachel Morris
Historian and author of The Years of the Wizard, specializing in early modern intellectual history and the interaction of magic, religion, and emerging science.
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Feb 26, 2026 • 43min
When Elves & Fairies Lived Among Us
Rachel Morris, historian and author who studies early modern magic, religion and emerging science. She unpacks Robert Kirk’s belief that fairies were a hidden, law‑bound people. Short takes cover second sight, Kirk’s parish fieldwork, Scotland’s uncanny landscape, continuities between elite and popular magical thought, and the strange afterlife of Kirk’s manuscript.


