Spearfinger and Whiteside Mountain

U'tlun'ta, Spearfinger, was a stone-skinned ogress with an awl-like finger who stole livers. She began a stone bridge through the air to Whiteside Mountain, which lightning shattered.

1900 CE · 35.08, -83.14 · status: legend

The account

Mooney noted that the Cherokee said the rock once crowning Whiteside's summit was part of her bridge. She was finally killed when a chickadee showed hunters where her heart was hidden.

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Spearfinger
2. Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), Project Gutenberg