MooNKY] NOTES AND TAKAM.ELS 47',) 



a|i]i()iiitc(l to ("ill 11 c-dunc'l of her |)i'o]ilf at tlu' forks of the \\'ayi'li (Pigeon) river. 

 Slif appcarcil unto tlic chiefs in a dream, and charged tlieni to meet the s])irits of the 

 luintin-r gronnd with fear ami reverence. 



"At the liour apjiointed the head men f>f the Cherokees assemliled. The high 

 Balsam i^eaks were .shaken hy thunder and aglare with lightning. The cloud, as 

 black a.s midnight, settled over the valley, then lifted, leaving upon a large rock a 

 cluster of strange men, armed and painted as for war. An enraged brother of the 

 abducted maiden swung his tomahawk and raise<l the war whoop, but a swift 

 thimderbolt dispatched him l)efore the echo had died in the hills. The chiefs, 

 terror-stricken, tied to their towns. 



"The bride, grieved by the death of her brother and the failure of the council, 

 prepared to abandon her new home and return to her kindred in the valleys. To 

 reconcile her the promise was granted that all brave warriors and their faithful 

 women should have an eternal home in the happy hinitiiig ground above, after 

 death. The great chief of the forest beyond the clouds became the guardian spirit of 

 the Cherokees. All deaths, either from wounds in battle or disease, were attribute<l 

 to his desire to make additions to the celestial hunting ground, or, on the other 

 liand, to his wrath, which might cause their unfortunate s]iirits to be turned over to 

 the disposition of the evil genius of the mountain tops." — Heart of the Alleghanies, 

 pp. 22-24. 



Kanv'ija — An ancient Cherokee town on Pigeon river, in the present Haywood 

 county. North Carolina. It was deserted before the beginning of the historic period, 

 but may have been located about the junction of the two forks of Pigeon river, a few- 

 miles east of Waynesville, where there are still a number of mounds and ancient 

 cemeteries extending for some miles down the stream. Being a frontier town, it was 

 proljalily abandoned early on account of its exposed position. The name, signifying 

 "scratcher," is applied to a comb, used for scratching the ballplayers, and is con- 

 nected with kdniiijiY'la or rmgn''Ia, a blackberry bush or brier. There are other 

 mounds on Richland creek, in the neighborhood of Waynesville. 



Imr h'thV Tfnnefjuri'ifi — .Abbreviated Tsunegun'yl; the mountain in which the 

 giant is supposed to have his residence, is Tenne.ssee bald, in North Carolina, where 

 the Haywood, Jackson, and Transylvania county lines come together, on the ridge 

 separating the waters of Pigeon river from those fiowiiig into Tenne.ssee creek and 

 Cany fork of the Tuckasegee, southeastward from Waynesville and Webstei'. The 

 name seems to mean, "at the white place," from vne'gii, "white," and may refer to 

 a bald spot of iierha))S a hundred acres on the top, locall}' known among the whites 

 as Jutaculla old fields, from a tradition, .said to be derived from the Indians, that 

 it was a clearing ma<le by ".Jutaculla" (i. e., Tsurkillii') for a farm. Some distance 

 farther west, on the north side of Cany fork and about ten miles above Webster, in 

 Jackson county, is a rock known as Jutaculla rock, covered with various rude carv- 

 ings, which, according to the same tradition, are scratches made by the giant in 

 jumping from his farm on the mountain to the creek below. Zeigler and Grosscup 

 refer to the mountain under the name of "Old Field mountain" and mention a tra- 

 dition among the pioneers that it was regarded by the Indians as the special abode 

 of the Indian 8atan! 



"On the top of the niounluin there is a ])rairie-like tract, almost level, reached l)y 

 steep slopes covered with thickets of bal.sam and rhododendron, which seem to garri- 

 son the reputed sacred domain. It was understood among the Indians to be for- 

 bidtlen territory, but a party one day permitted their curiosity to tempt them. They 

 forced a way through the entangled thickets, and with merriment entered the open 

 ground. Aroused from sleep and enraged by their audacious intrusion, the devil, 

 taking the form of an innnense snake, assaulted the party and swallowed fifty of 

 them before the thicket coidd he gained, .\mong the first whites who settled among 

 tlu' Indians, and traded with I hem. was a jiarty of hunters who used this superstition 



