The Ghillie Dhu: Guardian of the Woods (Scottish Folklore)

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In the north of Scotland, at the village of Gairloch. There lives a lone faerie, one who was exiled from the faerie court and abandoned in the forest. The tale of Ghillie Dhu. On one warm afternoon in mid-summer, a young girl Jessie Macrae went wandering in the nearby forest. She spent many hours adventuring and exploring the trees, but when evening fell, she realised that she had lost her way. Fear began to descend upon the poor girl as she attempted to fiind her way through the forest. An hour later tired, hungry and footsore, she sat beneath a large fir tree and began to weep. Suddenly from behind the tree a calm and reasted voice said, “Why do you cry, girl”. She jumped at the sound and looked round to see a strange elven like creature standing before her. The creature had long hair black as a raven’s wing and hazel brown eyes, jessie described as soft and kindly. With the creatures’ strange smile, she could see it had hundreds of small sharp teeth. If jessie had seen the Sith at a distance she would have ran screaming, but now up close she could tell there was no malice in the creature’s heart. The Sith wore a great cloak of moss and leaves, he bore such a resemblance to his background that jessie thought he may be the very manifestation of the forest its self.


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