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
Annis Gillie was elected as fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Gillie received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1961, and was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1968. The same year she was awarded an honorary MD degree by the Edinburgh University. In 1930, Gillie married Peter Chandler Smith, an architect. He lost his practice during the war and was unfit for military service. Later he became chronically ill with multiple sclerosis and depended much on Gillie, who also provided most incomes for the family. Dr. Gillie died on 10 April