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
Jean Gillie Later, however, it has gained an appreciative new audience among film noir aficionados after being included in Volume 4 of the Warner Bros. issued DVD series "Film Noir Classics Collection", released in the US in 2007, when it was described in "Entertainment Weekly" as a "weird but transfixing tale". In 1947 Gillie appeared in the Gregory Peck vehicle "The Macomber Affair", which turned out to be her final film. Her marriage to Bernhard had quickly run into trouble, and the couple divorced. Gillie returned to Britain in 1948 but had no time to revive her British career, as she died