From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V3 #157 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Saturday, October 28 2000 Volume 03 : Number 157 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Three Sisters tale ["Susan Cable" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:29:46 -0500 From: "Susan Cable" Subject: Three Sisters tale More information on the Three Sisters. The earliest recorded tale comes from Captain John Smith, who sailed up the Potomac in 1607. Smith noted in his diary that he heard mysterious moans and sobs in the area of the Three Sisters Islands, the three rocky outcrops just upstream of Key Bridge. Or so says author John Alexander in "Washington's Most Famous Ghost Stories," from which much of what follows has been freely cribbed. It turned out that the mournful sounds were attributable to the spirits of three Powhatan Indian maidens who had drowned whilst crossing the river to seek vengeance for the slaying of their lovers by Susquehannocks. As they went under, the lasses laid a curse on the Potomac; and their spirits, transformed to stone, abide in the river to enforce the malediction. One crosses there at one's peril, 'tis said, and when the beginnings of a bridge were built on the bank nearby, the wrathful sisters raised the river and washed the structure away. ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V3 #157 *****************************