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The old bridge got its name from the time in Clan MacLeod history when the fourth chief is said to have married a fairy wife. They had a young baby son but the fairy wife had a constant urge to return to her own folk. One day she made up her mind to go and no earthly power would keep her. Her husband walked with her and on the way tried to make her change her mind but to no avail. As they reached The Ford of the Three Bums, the fairy rose slowly into the sky and as she rose she dropped a piece of finest silk which landed at her dejected husband's feet. 'Keep this flag' she said 'and unfurl it to the wind whenever a crisis hits you. It will save you and yours twice but woe betide you if you unfurl it a third time.' It appears the flag has already been used to good effect on two occasions and now it rests untouched by human hand in a glass case in ancient Dunvegan Castle
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