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Atagahi, the enchanted lake

A hidden lake west of the headwaters of the Oconaluftee in the Great Smokies, visible only to those who fast and pray. Wounded animals bathed in its purple water and were healed.

1900 CE · 35.62, -83.45 · status: legend

The account

A hunter who stumbled near it would hear thousands of ducks but find only a dry flat.

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Sources

  1. Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), Project Gutenberg
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