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Myths of the Cherokee, James Mooney, 1900
A man was in love with a woman who disliked him and would have nothing
to do with him. He tried every way to win her favor, but to no purpose,
until at last he grew discouraged and made himself sick thinking over it.
The Mole came along, and finding him in such low condition asked what
was the trouble. The man told him the whole story, and when he had
finished the Mole said: "I can help you, so that she will not only like
you, but will come to you of her own will."
So that night the Mole burrowed his way underground to where the girl was
in bed asleep and took out her heart. He came back by the same way and
gave the heart to the man, who could not see it even when it was put into
his hand.
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"There," said the Mole, "swallow it,
and she will be drawn to come
to you and can not keep away."
The man swallowed the heart, and when the girl woke up she somehow thought
at once of him, and felt a strange desire to be with him, as though she
must go to him at once. She wondered and could not understand it, because
she had always disliked him before, but at last the feeling grew so strong
that she was compelled to go herself to the man and tell him she loved him
and wanted to be his wife.
And so they were married, but all the magicians who had known them both
were surprised and wondered how it had come about. When they found that it
was the work of the Mole, whom they had always before thought too
insignificant for their notice, they were very jealous and threatened to
kill him, so that he hid himself under the ground and has never since
dared to come up to the surface.
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