The Sleeping Woman is a name or nickname for certain mountain formations located in different places in the world that are said to look like a reclining or deceased woman in the local tradition.
Ranges by the name of "The Sleeping Lady"
Western
United States (in all three cases, the nickname is associated with an apocryphal
Native American legend of "The Sleeping Lady"):
Jebel Musa (Morocco) the mountain is also known as The Dead Woman (
Spanish: la Mujer Muerta), because from the direction of
Ceuta, around the town of
Benzú, it resembles a woman on her back.[6]
The
Virgin Gorda;
Spanish for the fat virgin, as the island looks like an overweight woman lying on her side.
Ranges by the name of The Sleeping or the Dead Lady