Case file · Fairy lore

Gisehun'yi, 'where the Female lives'

On the Tuckasegee about 2 miles above Bryson City, supernatural 'white people' were once seen washing clothes in the river and hanging them to dry, thought to be the family of the Great Female spirit.

1900 CE · 35.44, -83.41 · status: legend

Sources

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