@sweetwolf4evr requested a story from the Cherokee Nation this time, a shared community we both belong to, so I was so happy to have a few on hand. (Although, this one is a little short and a little disturbing. TW for consent issues, as I believe this would fall under Thomson Motif D1900 "Love Induced by Magic")
A man was in love with a woman who disliked him and wanted nothing to do with him. He tried every way to win her favor, but with no success. At last he grew discouraged and made himself thinking about it.
Mole came along and finding the man so low in mind, asked what the trouble was. The man told him the whole story and when he had finished, Mole said: "I can help you. Not only will she like you, but she'll come to you of her own free will."
That night, burrowing underground to the place where the girl was asleep, Mole took out her heart. He came back and gave the heart to the discouraged lover, who couldn't see it in the dark, even in his own hand. "There," said Mole. "Swallow it and she will be so drawn to you that she has to come."
The man swallowed the heart, and when the girl woke up she somehow thought of him at once. She felt a strange desire to be with him, to go to him immediately. She couldn't understand it, because she had always disliked him, but the feeling grew so strong that she was compelled to find the man and tell him that she loved him and wanted to be his wife. And so they were married.
All of the wise men and women who knew them both were confused and wondered how this had happened. When they found that it was the work of Mole, who they always thought was too insignificant to notice, they were angry and threatened to kill him.
That's why Mole hid under the ground and still doesn't dare to come up.
