The women of Shandwick.
The women of Shandwick in Easter Ross would often go up the hill, behind the village, to collect cones and sticks to smoke the fish. It is said that one day after they had collected their bundles - which they carried on their backs,

the Balnagown factor, appeared and with his knife cut the ropes and set fire to their sticks. After hearing the women’s story, the next day, an aunt of Andrew Ross the Shop – she was over 6 feet - and another very tall woman went up the hill and gathered their sticks.

When the factor appeared and produced his knife. They fell on him, stripped him naked and whipped him down the hill with the ropes used to tie up their petticoats.