The Legend of the Three Sisters

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Back in the Dreamtime there were three exceptionally beautiful Aboriginal maidens who lived with their father, who was the Witchdoctor of the Katoomba tribe.  The maidens were madly in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe. Unfortunately, ancestral law forbid the maidens from marrying anyone outside their own tribe.

However, this did nt stop the three brothers from trying to claim the three sisters and, if necessary, take them by force.  So together, with other warriors from the Nepean tribe, they followed the creek past Mount Solitary and into the Jamison Valley where they declared war on the Katoomba tribe.

A terrific battle followed and before long the tide of battle started to go against the Katoomba tribe.  To prevent the girls being spirited away the Witchdoctor decided to take his three beautiful daughters up onto the top of the cliff edge and with a magic spell turned them into stone for their own protection.  The idea being that when the battle was over, and Katoomba had won, he would return and release them from the spell.

But unfortunately, for both him and the maidens, he returned into the battle and was killed - and to this day no one has been able to work out how to release them from the spell and change the three beautiful sisters back into Aboriginal maidens.