Ghillie Dhu Ghillie Dhu In Scottish folklore the Ghillie Dhu or Gille Dubh () was a solitary male fairy. He was kindly and reticent yet sometimes wild in character but had a gentle devotion to children. Dark haired and clothed in leaves and moss, he lived in a birch wood within the Gairloch and Loch a Druing area of the north-west highlands of Scotland. "Ghillie" is an English equivalent of the Scottish Gaelic word ; Edward Dwelly, a Scottish lexicographer, lists "gille" as a "lad", "youth" or "boy" with "dubh" translating as "dark" or "dark-haired". According to folklorist and scholar Katharine Briggs
Ghillie Basan Ghillie Basan Ghillie Başan (born 30 August 1962) is a Scottish-based food and travel writer, cook and workshop host. Her books have been nominated for the Glenfiddich, Guild of Food Writers’, and Cordon Bleu awards. Brought up in Kenya where her parents were doctors, Basan was sent to boarding school in Scotland from where she got an entrance to the University of Edinburgh to study languages. Once at the University, Basan switched her course from languages to social anthropology. Basan met her husband in Turkey and they moved to live in the United States for two years before returning to