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From
Myths of the Cherokee, James Mooney, 1900
A hunter had been all day looking for deer in the mountains without
success until he was completely tired out and sat down on a log to rest
and wonder what he should do.
Just then a
buzzard--a bird which always has magic powers--came flying overhead and
spoke to him, asking him what was his trouble.
When the hunter had told his story the buzzard said there were plenty of
deer on the ridges beyond if only the hunter were high up in the air where
he could see them, and proposed that they exchange forms for a while, when
the buzzard would go home to the hunter's wife while the hunter would go
to look for deer.
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The hunter agreed, and the buzzard became a man and went home to
the
hunter's wife, who received him as her husband, while the hunter became a
buzzard and flew off over the mountain to locate the deer. After staying
some time with the woman, who thought always it was her real husband, the
buzzard excused himself, saying he must go again to look for game or they
would have nothing to eat. He came to the place where he had first met the
hunter, and found him already there, still in buzzard form, awaiting him.
He asked the hunter what success he had had, and the hunter replied that
he had found several deer over the ridge, as the buzzard had said. Then
the buzzard restored the hunter to human shape, and became himself a
buzzard again and flew away. The hunter went where he had seen the deer
and killed several, and from that time he never returned empty-handed from
the woods.
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