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
Jean Gillie Tiger", notable as the only time her character Patricia Holm (the love interest of Simon Templar aka "The Saint") was ever featured on screen in any film adaptation of a novel from the Leslie Charteris "The Saint" canon. 1944 saw Gillie starring in the whimsical propaganda drama "Tawny Pipit", while her last British film "Flight from Folly" (1945) marked a return to comedy. During the war, Gillie met American film director Jack Bernhard while he was on military service and stationed in Britain. The couple married on 5 May 1944, and after the end of the war went to live