The Legendary Power of Moles

here is much more then meets-the-eye to these tiny earth creatures. They have a great healing power, surpassing many herbal remedies, and can even grant the power of divination if used properly. The tradition is known throughout Europe, particularly in Hungary and Germany (in other regions you are likely to find midwives and hermits who may know that moles have this power, but may not know how to use it).

Many Hermetic Magi of the Rhine, Greater Alps, and Transylvanian Tribunals have researched these tales of the mole's mysterious power, and some believe it can grant visions and cure specific ailments. It is a tricky science, as specific uses of the mole, both alive and involving its internal organs, apparantly have quite different effects. Learning and understanding these applications consumes the attention of several theorists in middle Europe. One universal truth seems to be known: that only one application of the mole can be used per animal. Further use of the beast has no effect and often produces undesired effects (even reversing the initial application's effects).

Different methods of death for the mole seem to result in curing different afflictions though the same steps be taken otherwise!

• To eat a mole's still beating heart can grant divinations, but there are other steps necessary to facilitate this which vary.
• A mole's tooth, extracted from a living mole which is then released to the wild, can cure a toothache when swallowed.
• Boil its flesh and rub the resulting ointment on your scalp to grow hair.
• Eating the mole's heart can put a stop to madness and seizures (epilepsy).
• By biting its four paws off, and drinking the blood that oozes from the wounds, common colds and fevers will be allayed.
• Drain the beast's blood and apply it to the inner ear to cure deafness.
• In Magyar tradition, you must violently throttle, strangle, or plunge your fingers into the mole's body to make use of its powers. Often times biting off its head or appendages may be required.
• In Germany, gently suffocating a mole in a child's cupped hands (or alternatively swaddling clothes) can bestow the healing knack upon them.
• Colic, Skin diseases, sores, boils and warts, and fevers are among the ailments that the mole can cure.

This page last modified on 8/29/97.

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