Kumeyaay - Ah K'wer-rup' (Disease Cure)
Near the place called Huts-tha' Tah-mil'tah, on the West side of Cuyamaca Peak in an almost inaccessible spot, is a huge white rock, as large as a 'ewaa (house). It looks as if it might have been sprinkled with blood, for it is flecked with spots of bright red, and a sharp cleft divides it in twain.
The name of this rock is Ah Kewer-rup' (Disease Cure). In ancient times the Indians believed that it possessed the power to dispel aches and pain, and the medicine men took their sick, who were suffering from any painful malady, there to be healed.
Wonderful and miraculous were some of the cures said to have been performed there. But, in time it lost its power and fell into disuse.
However, some of the Indians say, that even now, if one gets near enough to fling a stone against the big rock, it sings or cheeps like a young birdling; and they still hold it in reverence.