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Cherokee - Atsi la-wa I
"Fire relative"
A peak spoken of, as Rattlesnake Knob, along the Oconaluftee River in Cherokee in the Yellow Hill community. It receives its name from a tradition that a ball of fire can be seen to fly through the air from the direction of the highlands in Macon County and alight upon this mountain.
The Cherokee believe it to have been a Ulunsu'ti (rattlesnake) which the owner had kept in a hiding place upon the summit from which, after his death, came forth nightly to search for him. The light can often be seen until this day.
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