436 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bdll. 196 



2.— THE UGH{A)DHE:N{A) BRIDGE 



They aU left.^ 



This happened on this side of Dudv:hnv:yi} 



Some men were out hmiting. Darkness overtook them, but they 

 kept going on. Suddenly they noticed a light. They did not know 

 where it came from; there was nothing at the foot of the hill where 

 they were. But when they looked up, they saw a sort of footlog 

 from the top of one hiU to another. It was lighted up. 



They kept going on; they decided it was an Ugh{a)dhe:n(a). 



Z.~UGH{A)DHE:Nt: YI 



This is a true story. 



There is a place, halfway between the Fieldhouse and Cherokee,^ 

 called Ugh {a) dhe : ni : yi. 



Some people had been over there on the other side of the river. It 

 seemed to them that something had been there in the brushwood. 

 They thought that something must be living in the deep hole in the 

 river there. 



The men were anxious to see what it was, so they fasted all day. 

 Between afternoon and evening they noticed something was in the 

 water. The water rose, and whistled like the wind. 



After a while it became calm. Then they saw big snakes, Uni:: 

 gh{a)dhe:n(a),^ in the big hole of water. Then they went away. That 

 is all they wanted to see. 



That is what they call this place Uni:gh(a)dhe:ni:yi,^ or 

 Ugh{a)dhe:ni:yi.^ 



4.— THE GHOST OF DISO:LVDH{V)Dl:YI 



About a quarter of a mile this side of Birdtown is a place called 

 Diso:lvdh{v)di:yi ('to stretch out the arms-place'). There was a 

 trail that passed by there, and people who used it often saw a human 

 being standing there with his arms outstretched. Nobody knew 

 who it was. 



There used to be a ball ground there where a very strong man 



1 Olbrechts' note: "W.[ill West Long] and TN lT3i:sghwa Na:{\ have heard of a pretty similar case. A 

 solitary hunter wanted to spend night there. He also started singing same song. Same result." Morgan 

 Calhoun doubtlessly told the tale to Olbrechts. 



2 Sec footnote 98, p. 435. 



' On the Eastern Cherokee Reservation. 

 * The plural of Ugh(,a)dhe:n{a). 

 « 'Ugh(a)dhe:n(.a) [pl.]-place.' 

 6 ' Ugh{a)dhe :n(a)-pla.ce.' 



