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The Legend Of Blowing Rock
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: 2011
Caption: The Legend Of Blowing Rock
Additional Description: It is said that a Chickasaw chieftan, fearful of a white man’s admiration for his beautiful daughter, hid her atop a high craggy cliff the care of a squaw mother. One day she spied a Cherokee brave in the wilderness below and playfully shot an arrow at him. Soon he appeared before her wigwam,and in the days that followed the became sweethearts. One evening a prophetic red sky beckoned him to return to his people. The lonely maiden begged him not to go.. But torn between his love for her and his duty to his people, he leaped from the rock into the ominous night. Falling to her knees, she prayed to the spirits for his return; and as she did, a strange heavenward breeze blew her lover back into her outstretched arms. Since that day, this cliff with the mysterious upward wind has been known as The Blowing Rock.
Submitted: June 23, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p158267
File Size: 1.649 Megabytes

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