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gille dubh

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gille dubh, dhu [ScG, dark boy]. Scottish Gaelic solitary fairy, clothed in leaves and moss, who lurks in the birch woods near Gairloch in the north-west Highlands in what used to be (until 1974) Ross and Cromarty; generally thought benevolent.

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