Word: diablo
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Great Spirit. One Indian finding was negative, and damaging to a colorful legend-that the meteor crater near Canyon Diablo in Arizona was feared and shunned superstitiously by the Indians. Legend has it that the crater was regarded as the place where the Great Spirit appeared as a huge ball of fire and plunged into the earth. This story, according to Professor Lincoln La Paz, meteor expert of the University of New Mexico, even penetrated scientific writings and was used as "proof" that the meteor fell at a date when the region had human inhabitants to witness its fall...