| 词条 | Lover's Leap |
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Lover's Leap, or (in plural) Lovers' Leap, is a toponym given to a number of locations of varying height, usually isolated, with the risk of a fatal fall and the possibility of a deliberate jump. Legends of romantic tragedy are often associated with a Lovers' Leap. List of locations
LegendsUnited StatesThe Lovers' Leap at Hawks Nest State Park in the town of Ansted, West Virginia, along the historic Midland Trail, has a drop of {{convert|585|ft}} from a high cliff overlooking the New River Gorge. The promontory was named "Lovers' Leap" by settlers,[2] and has acquired a legend involving two young Native Americans from different tribes.[3] Blowing Rock Mountain, outside Blowing Rock, North Carolina, has a similar legend of a young lover leaping from the cliff and instead of plunging to his death, is saved. In this version the lover is saved by the blowing wind which sends him back into the arms of his sweetheart.[4]Wills Mountain has a Lovers' Leap overlooking Cumberland Narrows on the west side of Cumberland, Maryland. It is {{convert|1652|ft|m}} above sea level and made up of oddly squared projections of rock from its top all the way down to the National Road (U.S. Route 40) below. The city of Cumberland and the surrounding states of Pennsylvania and West Virginia may be seen from this point.{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}} Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi writes: "There are fifty Lover's Leaps along the Mississippi from whose summit disappointed Indian girls have jumped."[5][6] Princess Winona is one such legend, in which the daughter of a Dakota chief leaps to her death rather than marry a suitor she does not love.[7] Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, is one site for the Winona legend, though other locations include Winona Falls in Pennsylvania, Camden County, Missouri and Cameron Park in Waco, Texas. OtherDovedale in the Peak District in the United Kingdom has a limestone promontory named Lovers' Leap reached by a set of steps built by Italian prisoners of war captured in World War II. The local legend is that a young woman believed her lover had been killed in the Napoleonic wars, so she threw herself off the top of the promontory. Later, her family found out that her lover was alive and well.[8]The south coast of Jamaica at Saint Elizabeth Parish has a Lovers' Leap {{convert|1700|ft|m}} above the Caribbean Sea. Lovers' Leap is named after two slave lovers from the 18th century, Mizzy and Tunkey. According to legend, their master, Chardley, liked Mizzy; so, in a bid to have her for himself, he arranged for her lover, Tunkey, to be sold to another estate. Mizzy and Tunkey fled to avoid being separated but were eventually chased to the edge of a large steep cliff. Rather than face being caught and separated, the lovers embraced and jumped over the cliff.[9] The story was used as the basis for a romantic novel.[10] See also
References1. ^https://goo.gl/maps/m66C96yy6pF2 2. ^Shawnee Captive: The Story of Mary Draper Ingles (Women of the Frontier), page 83, Mary R. Furbee, Morgan Reynolds Publishing (July 2001), {{ISBN|1-883846-69-2}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.wonderfulwv.com/sub.cfm?month=sept06&fea=2 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-05-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915071732/http://www.wonderfulwv.com/sub.cfm?month=sept06&fea=2 |archivedate=2008-09-15 |df= }} 4. ^http://www.townofblowingrock.com/history.php 5. ^Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Penguin Books, New York, 1961 p. 283 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.qufriary.org/Hoebing/lleap.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-07-31 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090328134857/http://www.qufriary.org/Hoebing/lleap.html |archivedate=2009-03-28 |df= }} 7. ^{{Cite web|last= Porter|first= Cynthya|title= Homecoming to Explore Roles of American Indian Women|publisher= Winona Daily News reprinted at Diversity Foundation|year= Feb 1, 2009|url= http://diversityfoundation.org/HomecomingToExploreRoles.html|accessdate= 21 Oct 2015}} 8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-ilampark/w-east_midlands-places-southpeakestate/w-east_midlands-places-dovedale.htm#lovers_leap |title=National Trust – Ilam Park – Dovedale |publisher=www.nationaltrust.org.uk |accessdate=2008-04-06 |last= |first= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317052126/http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-ilampark/w-east_midlands-places-southpeakestate/w-east_midlands-places-dovedale.htm |archivedate=2008-03-17 |deadurl=yes |df= }} 9. ^https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/5460/Introduction/About_Lover_s_Leap/about_lover_s_leap.html&date=2009-10-25+09:58:25 10. ^Lover's Leap: Based on the Jamaican Legend, Horane Smith, Minerva Press (June 1, 1999), {{ISBN|0-7541-0589-X}} Further reading
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