From Folk Tales And Fairy Lore in Gaelic And English Collected From

Oral Tradition by Rev. James MacDougall (1910)

THE SUNART WOMAN PROTECTED FROM THE FAIRIES BY THE
SWORD MACGILLONY
There lived a fisherman near Loch Sunart, in Ardnamurchan, who left his
wife alone in the house, while he was setting the nets in the Loch and
leaving them there for the night. In his absence two strangers, one of them
very tall and the other very short, approached the door of the apartment
where his wife lay in bed. There was an opening between the top of the
door and the lintel, through which the tall stranger thrust his head, and saw
the woman in bed. He stood a while gazing at her without making any
attempt to enter, until the little man pushed him forward so hard that the
door gave way and he was forced into the sleeping place as far as the middle
of the floor, but further than that the little man could not put him. He stood
where he was until he heard the approaching sound of the husband's
footsteps. Then he and his companion went away, and as they were leaving
the house, one of them was heard saying: "Why did you not take the woman
with you? " and the other answering: "MacGillony lay between me and her."
This was an old sword which was hidden under the bedding near the front
of the bed, which had got this name either either from its first owner or after
the smith who made it.
Notes:
Page 196The sword MacGillony. The Highlander had fanciful names for
his weapons, Duncan Maclntyre applied them freely to guns and halbert as
well. For names of swords, cf. W.H. Tales, iii. 402, verse 19, and note.
A drawn sword was a special protection from the fairies. "He caused set
furth the said James Glen, his alone betwixt nyne and ten in ane winter
night, and bade draw ane compas about the said James with ane drawn
sword, and that the said Stein went out his alone into the yaird to hold affe
the fairye from the said James."Stirling Pres. Records, quoted in Social
Sketches, p. 78.
A piece of cold iron or fteel put into the bed of a lady "uneasy in her
circumstances," will protect mother and oflspring from being "fayed."

Stewart's Highland Superstitions, p. 91