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Show Rally Round The Fairy Flag In this country, early American Ameri-can flays are carefully preserved pre-served in museums. Similarly, in an ancientcnstlein the Western West-ern Highlands of Scotland a fragile piece of cloth is displayed dis-played in a (lass frame. This wisp of cloth the Fairy Flag is closely guarded because be-cause some Scots believe its loss might mean the end of one of the oldest Scottish clans, the Macleods. It is now looked after by the revered chieftain of the clan. Dame Flora Mac-I.eod, Mac-I.eod, who is over 90. The story is that the Fairy Flag was brought back from the Far East by a Macleod chieftain hundreds of years ago. He told his clan that the flag had the power, when it was waved on high, tosavethe MacLeods Mac-Leods from three great dangers. |