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 Japp) Gillie. She studied at Wycombe Abbey School, University College London and University College Hospital, graduating in 1925. In 1927 she became member of the Royal College of Physicians. She started working as assistant to a medical partnership of three women, and after they retired continued receiving patients at her home in Connaught Square in London. During World War II she moved with her two children to a country cottage at Pangbourne, continuing her medical work until retirement in 1963. Gillie was noted for helping recover British general practice after World War II. She was a member of the General