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And now on with the show. I'm going to be here. Oh, And I'm In 1644, Robert Kirk was born to loving parents in the cold and wild Scottish

Highlands. Kirk's father, James, was the minister of their particular parish, Aberfoil, Perthshire.

Young Robert was the seventh-born child of his parents and remained the youngest son in the family.

He quickly matured in his environment, a fruitful

mixture of rugged terrain and affectionate community where trustworthiness was the prime virtue.

And so, taking after his father, Robert attended seminary at St Andrews

before receiving a master's degree from Edinburgh in 1661. Three years after his graduation, he was named the minister of a smaller village in Perthshire before taking over the Ministry of Aberfoil from 1685 until his death seven years later.

He was a keen family man. He married his first wife

Isabel in 1670 and the two had a son named Colin. When Isabel died after a

decade of marriage, Kirk carved an epitaph out of stone by his own hand to

place on top of her grave. He married again soon after and was blessed with another

son, a boy named Robert Jr. But meandering through the seemingly normal life's path that Kirk tread,

runs a prominent thread of enchantment.

You see, Robert Kirk was a folklorist and Gaelic scholar.

Before his death he would actually help oversee the first mass printing of a Gaelic Bible.

This meant that he was well versed in the local legends surrounding his little parish in Central Scotland.

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