The Three Sisters

In 1691, the English king William of Orange demanded an oath of loyalty by the clan chiefs of Scotland. Ian MacDonald, chief of the MacDonald clan of Glencoe, was a bit late in delivering that oath. A few weeks later, a hundred soldiers moved into Glencoe, pretended to be tax collectors, and spent nearly two weeks as the MacDonalds' guests. The true purpose of their stay however was to kill every last man of the MacDonald clan.

In the morning hours of 13 February 1692, these soldiers started butchering the village's population, killing nearly forty of them. Many fled from the village through the cold and died in the snow of the mountains where they hid. Legend has it that three girls of clan MacDonald hid in the mountains east of Glencoe village, steep ridges that are covered in snow even now in late March, and died in the cold that night.