Myths of the Cherokee

The Mole

First appears: Myth 30 · Why the Mole Lives Underground

Life events

  • The Mole took out the woman’s heart and gave it to the man.(Myth 30 · Why the Mole Lives Underground)
    • With: the man (Myth 30) the woman (Myth 30)
    • “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.”
  • The Mole hid himself under the ground after the magicians threatened to kill him.(Myth 30 · Why the Mole Lives Underground)
    • “they were very jealous and threatened to kill him, so that he hid himself under the ground”

Myth 30 · Why the Mole Lives Underground

  • recipient: the man (Myth 30) “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.”
  • enemies with the woman (Myth 30) “So that night the Mole burrowed his way underground to where the girl was in bed asleep and took out her heart.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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