Tom Dula (Dooley)
"Hang down your head Tom Dooley,
Hang down your head and cry,
Hang down your head Tom Dooley,
Poor boy, you’re bound to die!"
"Hang down your head Tom Dooley,
Hang down your head and cry,
Hang down your head Tom Dooley,
Poor boy, you’re bound to die!"
Cherokee / Legends / Native American Legends
by Ian · Published November 21, 2013 · Last modified November 17, 2018
A long time ago the people of the old town of Kanu’ga`lâ’yï ("Brier place," or Briertown), on Nantahala river, in the present Macon county, North Carolina, were much annoyed by a great insect called U’la`gû’, as large as a house, which used to come from some secret hiding place, and darting swiftly through the air, would snap up children from their play and carry the
Cherokee / Legends / Native American Legends
by Ian · Published November 19, 2013 · Last modified November 15, 2018
Westward from the headwaters of Oconaluftee river, in the wildest depths of the, Great Smoky mountains, which form the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, is the enchanted lake of Atagâ’hï, "Gall place." Although all the Cherokee know that it is there, no one has ever seen it, for the way is so difficult that only the animals know how to reach it.
Cherokee / Legends / Native American Legends
by Ian · Published July 12, 2013 · Last modified November 14, 2018
This is what the old men told me when I was a boy. Once when all the people of the settlement were out in the mountains on a great hunt one man who had gone on ahead climbed to the top of a high ridge and found a large river on the other side.
Big Foot / Cherokee / Cryptozoology / Legends / Native American Legends
by Ian · Published July 10, 2013 · Last modified November 17, 2018
The Tsul`kälû, (Judaculla or Tuli-cula or Juthcullah), a giant with sloped or slanted eyes appears in Cherokee legend as a figure associated withing hunting, a Master-of-Game.
Aquatic Monsters / Cherokee / Cryptozoology / Legends / Native American Legends
by Ian · Published July 10, 2013 · Last modified December 29, 2018
The following legend is taken from ‘Myths Of The Cherokee’ by James Mooney (Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1897-98, Part I.) ’The spot where Valley river joins Hiwassee, at Murphy, in North Carolina, is known among the Cherokees as Tlanusi’yï, "The Leech place," and this is the story they tell of it:
Cherokee / Folklore / Legends / Native American Legends
by Ian · Published July 10, 2013 · Last modified November 17, 2018
According to ‘Myths Of The Cherokee’ by James Mooney (Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1897-98, Part I.), The Knob, which is a name for the Big Pinnacle on Pilot Mountain (standing 2421 feet) was one of the homes of the Nûñnë’hï.
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