Raising the Fairy by Paul Kelbie


OU’VE heard the lullaby, read the book, tried the whisky, now prepare to watch the movie!


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The Fairy Flag, the biggest independent film production to be made in Scotland for more than 20 years, is nearing completion and ready for the big screen.


The action-packed romantic fantasy tells the story of one of Scotland’s most enduring myths and legends - the Fairy Flag of the Clan Macleod.


For centuries children around the world, many of them Scotish or descended from Scots, have heard bedtime stories and fireside tales about how the


44 June 2015


Te flag resides to this day at Dunvegan Castle, which has been home to the MacLeods for 800 years, and is said to have been a giſt from the Fairy queen Titania.


Fairy Flag was given to the MacLeods on Skye and how it affords magical protection to the clan.


The flag resides to this day at Dunvegan Castle, which has been home to the MacLeods for 800 years, and is said to have been a giſt from the Fairy queen Titania.


Legend has it that a young chief of the clan fell in love with the Princess but her father, the King of the Fairies, forbade their union. Only aſter much grief did he relent and agree to a period of ‘handfasting’, a common form of trial marriage practised in the Highlands.


Aſter a year and a day the Princess was to return to her own people without taking anything human with her - and that included the baby she had with the young chieſtain.


However, before leaving Titania made her husband promise their son would be cared for and never allowed to cry. Although the Chief kept his promise


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