In a Scottish myth a man who walked up the hill every evening with his wife found one day that they had grown too old and his wife could no longer climb to the top to join him. A fairy who had watched them go up every evening, offered the old man the chance to always have his wife with him wherever he went. The old man accepted the offer but the fairy folk tricked them and turned them both into pillars of rock, ensuring that they would indeed always be together. Old Man of Storr - Skye Island - Scotland