Ghillie Dhu the Ghillie Dhu was a gentle and kind-hearted mountain spirit, or a "rather unusual nature fairy." The Ghillie Dhu was an individual male modern day fairy described by Osgood Mackenzie, a Scottish landowner and horticulturist, in his memoirs that were published in 1921. The fairy was generally timid, yet he could also be "wild". Residing in the birch woods near Loch a Druing, in the north-west Highland area of Gairloch, he was mainly seen in the latter part of the 18th century. The woods are in a dip alongside a hilly area around from where Rua Reidh Lighthouse was later
Inanimate whose this?" can refer only to a person. The Old English genitive of the neuter pronoun "" ('what') was "hwæs", which later evolved as "whose" into the genitive of "which". The first recorded instance of inanimate "whose" occurs in 1479. Attested usage increased in Early Modern English, with inanimate "whose" appearing repeatedly in the works of Shakespeare, in the King James Bible, and in the writings of Milton and others. Old English had grammatical gender, and pronouns agreed with the grammatical gender of the nouns they referred to, regardless of the biological or social gender of what was referred to. For