8 Marks On A Tree You Should NEVER Ignore In The Woods From an Appalachian Local

My survival book, The Appalachian Book of the Living and the Lost: https://www.otisboone.com Some marks on a tree in these mountains are a warning, some are a trap, and one was left two hundred years ago to point somewhere nobody living can read anymore. This video walks through eight of them, straight from a local's eye: the purple paint that counts as a legal warning, the hairy vine you should never burn, the claw marks that mean a bear's been feeding right where you're standing, the ribbon or tacks that lead to trouble instead of out, the widow maker overhead, the buck rub that means a hunter's close by, the lightning scar the Cherokee wouldn't touch, and the bent tree that once pointed to water, shelter, or the dead. Real law, real history, real old Cherokee belief, told the way it was handed down in these hollows. By the end you'll know what to walk past, what to walk around, and what to leave standing. If you spend time in these woods, this is the kind of thing worth knowing before you need it. #AppalachianFolklore #CherokeeLegends #AppalachianTrail #SmokyMountains #MountainLore