Case file · Folklore / legend

Standing Indian

A bald peak at the head of the Nantahala named Yun'wi-tsulenun'yi, 'where the man stood', after a man-shaped rock on its summit. When the rock broke off, a tradition grew of a mysterious being once seen standing there.

1900 CE · 35.08, -83.53 · status: legend

Sources

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