Tsul 'Kalu: The Cherokee Devil of North Carolina. #folklore #tales #cherokee #devil

The Cherokee Devil, or Tsul Kalu, is a massive, skinny, white-haired creature that resembles a classic bigfoot found in North America.
What is now North Carolina is where his mythology began.
There are allegedly still marks on stones that come from the footprints of a tsul kalu.According to Cherokee legend, tsul kalu, the lord of the hunt or the game, has the ability to read people's minds and mesmerize them.
The most well-known legend about him is that he married a Cherokee woman.
It was the woman's mother who persuaded her to marry a skilled hunter who could support their family.
After reading his bride's thoughts, the tsul kalu showed up bearing a deer as a gift.
The Cherokee used face masks of the tsul kalu to protect their hunting areas by pinning them to trees.
They thought there were multiple of the monsters, and that if they saw the mask, they would be scared away, thinking they had wandered into a larger tsul kalu's hunting grounds.