{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/sw/ain/ain47.htm","path":"nam/sw/ain/ain47.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/sw/ain/ain47.htm","text":"A little off from the road between Sacaton, and Casa Grande Ruins there is, or was in the old days, a mysterious pool of dark water, which the Indians regarded with superstitious awe.\nThey said it was of fathomless depth, that it communicated with the ocean, and that strange, monstrous animals at times appeared in it. There are Indians still living who declare they have seen them with their own eyes.\nI visited this famous place once with my interpreter, Mr Wood. After galloping a while thru a mezquite forest we suddenly emerged upon its legendary shores Alas, for the prosaic quality of fact! It was but a commonplace water-hole, or spring-pond, a few rods across, with bogs and bulrushes in its center.\nThe unkindness of irrigation ditches, withdrawing its waters, revealed that like most bottomless pools of story it was very shallow indeed.\nIt was nearly dry.\nIts name of Blackwater has been given to the nearby surrounding district.\nThis was the only trace of the common Indian superstition of water monsters I found among the Pimas.\nKoo-a Kutch\nThe End","title":"Aw-aw-tam Indian Nights (Myths and Legends of the Pimas): Stories of the Fourth Night: The Legend of Blackwater","type":"page"}