Carter, Isabel Gordon. "Mountain
White Folk-Lore: Tales from the Southern Blue Ridge." Journal of American
Folklore 38 (1925): pp. 340-74.
The Bent Gun (hunting tall tale)
The Enchanted Lady. See Jack and the King's Girl
Hardy Hardback
The Irishman. See Brave Women in The Hainted House
Jack and the Fox. See Cat 'n Mouse
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Giants
Jack and the Northwest Wind
The King and Old George Buchanan. See The Farmer's Daughter
Lazy Jack and his Calf Skin. See Jack
and the Bull - and - Jack and the Heifer Hide
Little Dicky Wigbun (also in McCarthy, below)
The Louse Skin. See The Frog King
Old Bluebeard. See Jack and OId Greasybeard
Old Catkins
Old Foster. See Pretty Polly - or - Mister
Fox
Old Gally Mander
Old Notchy Road. See Pretty Polly - or - Mister
Fox
Old Stiff Dick. See Jack and the
Varmints
The Powder Horn (tall tale)
Sop, Doll, Sop
The Three Ghosts. See Jack and the Hainted House
Tom Fox. See Pretty Polly - or - Mister
Fox
Whiteberry Whittington
Chase, Richard.
Grandfather Tales. Boston: Houghton, 1948.
Ashpet
Catskins
Chunk o' Meat. See
Tailypo
Froggy Went A-Courtin'
Gallymanders! Gallymanders!
The Green Gourd
How Bobtail Beat the Devil.
See
Wicked John and the Devil
Like Meat
Loves Salt
Mutsmag
Old-Christmas Eve Mummers' Play
Old Dry Frye
Old One-Eye
Old Roaney - text
from archive forthcoming in Fiction and Poems section
The Old Sow and the
Three Shoats. See
The Three Little Pigs and the Fox
Only a Fair Day's Huntin'
(tall tales)
The Outlaw Boy (Robin
Hood)
Present Need, Bymeby, and
Hereafter. See Jack and the Three Sillies
Sam and Sooky. See Jack and the Three Sillies
Soap, Soap, Soap!
The Skoonkin Huntin'
(wild tall tale like the doctor's long speech in English mummers' plays)
Sody
Sallyraytus
The Tall Cornstalk
(giant vegetable tall tale)
The Two Lost Babes
The Two Old
Women's Bet
Whitebear Whittington
Wicked John
and the Devil
Chase, Richard. The
Jack Tales. Boston: Houghton, 1943
Big Jack and Little Jack
Cat 'n Mouse
Fill, Bowl! Fill! See Jack and the King's Girl
Hardy Hardhead
The Heifer
Hide
Jack and the Bean Tree
Jack and the
Bull
Jack and the Doctor's Girl
Jack and the King's Girl
Jack and King
Marock
Jack and the North West Wind
Jack and the Robbers
Jack and the
Varmints
Jack in the Giants’ Newground.
See
Jack and the
Giants
Jack's Hunting
Trips. See Deer Antlers and Peach Trees
Old Fire Dragaman.
See
Jack and the Fire Dragon
Soldier Jack
Sop Doll
(Also Chase picture books
Jack and the Three Sillies and
Wicked John and the Devil)
Chase, Richard. American Folk Tales and Songs, and Other Examples of English-American Tradition as Preserved in the Appalachian Mountains and Elsewhere in the United States. Part 2 contains ballads, songs, hymns, games, jokes, and other bits of folklore, including some riddles between selections. Part 1, Tales, includes 6 brief noodelhead stories labeled The Fool Irishmen Tales as well as the following sections.
Tales collected by Richard Chase that are reprinted in AppLit from James Taylor Adams Collection:
The Boy Who Wanted Gold
Death and the Old Woman
Down Come a Leg
Fool Jack and the Talking Crow
Munsmeg
Old
Guy Frye
Davenport, Tom. From
the Brothers Grimm series of live action films and 1992 book of
stories
Ashpet. See also Appalachian Riddles
Bearskin
Bristlelip
The Frog King
The Goose Girl
Hansel and Gretel. See
The Babes in the
Woods - and - The Two Lost Babes
Jack and the Dentist's Daughter.
See
Jack and the Doctor's Girl
Mutzmag
Rapunzel,
Rapunzel
Soldier Jack
Willa: An
American Snow White. See
Snow White's
Appalachian Descendants
Davis, Donald.
Jack Always Seeks His Fortune: Authentic Appalachian Jack Tales.
Little Rock: August House, 1992.
The First Time Jack Came to
America.
The Time Jack Cured the Doctor.
See Jack and the Doctor's Girl
The Time Jack Fooled the Miller.
(like Chaucer's Reeve's Tale )
The Time Jack Got His First Job.
See
Jack and the King's Girl and Jack's First Job
The Time Jack Got the Silver
Sword. See
Jack and the
Giants
The Time Jack Got the Wishing Ring.
See
Noteworthy Girls in Jack Tales
The Time Jack Helped the King
Catch His Girls.
The Time Jack Learned About Old and New.
See
Jack and King
Marock
The Time Jack Solved the Hardest Riddle.
See
Noteworthy Girls in Jack Tales and Appalachian Riddles
The Time Jack Stole the Cows.
See
Jack and the
Giants and Jack and the Doctor's Girl
The Time Jack Told a Big Tale.
(winning princess by telling long preposterous tale King can't believe)
The Time Jack Went to Seek His
Fortune. See
Foolish Jack
The Time Jack Went Up the Big
Tree.
(Also Davis picture books
Jack and the
Animals and The Pig
Who Went Home on Sunday – see
The Three Little Pigs and the Fox)
Ellington, Charlotte Jane. Dancing Leaf. Johnson City, Tenn: Overmountain Press, 2007. A novel with Cherokee legends beginning each chapter.
The Bear People. See Selu and Kana'Ti
The Book
The Daughter of the Sun
How the Redbird Got His Color. See Dancing Drum
How the World Was Made
The Legend of the Strawberries
Possum's Tail
Spider Woman
Star Woman. See Selu and Kana'Ti
The Sun and Moon. See Dancing Drum
The Uktena
Why Turtle's Shell is Scarred
Haley, Gail E. Mountain
Jack Tales. New York: Dutton, 1992.
Jack and Catherine. See
Cat 'n Mouse
Jack and the Flying Ship.
See
Hardy Hardhead
Jack and the Northwest Wind
Jack and Uncle Thimblewit.
See Jack and the
Giants
Jack and Old Raggedy Bones.
See
Soldier Jack
Jack of Hearts and King Marock.
See
Jack and King
Marock
The Lion and
the Unicorn
The Longest Story. See The Endless
Tale - and - The Tale Without an End
Muncimeg and the Giant.
See
Mutsmag
(Also Haley picture books
Jack and the
Bean Tree and
Jack and the Fire Dragon)
Hicks, Orville, and Julia Taylor Ebel. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns, As Told By Orville Hicks. Illus. Sherry Jenkins Jensen. Boone, NC: Parkway, 2009. Contains folk songs, riddles and Orville's own stories about his life, family and folklife, as well as the following sections.
Hicks, Ray and Lynn Salsi.
The Jack Tales. Illus. Owen Smith. New York: Calloway, 2000.
Jack and the
Bean Tree
Jack and the North-West Wind
Jack and the Robbers
Jones, Loyal, ed. Appalachian Folk Tales. Illus. Jim Marsh. Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2010.
Ashpet's Dreams by Brenda Gough
The Boy Who Wanted Gold by James Taylor Adams
Cheese and Quackers by Anne Shelby. See Sody
Sallyraytus
Ezell and the Black-Speckled Gizzard Stone by Aileen Kilgore Henderson. See Tailypo
Jack Goes A-Hunting by Loyal Jones
Little Esmond by Patty Reese. See Jack and the King's Girl and Jack's First Job
Mutsmeg by Loyal Jones
Nail Soup by Bob Rennick (a Jack tale like "Stone Soup"; see also Roberts below)
Raglif Jaglif Tetartlif Pole by Leonard W. Roberts. See Jack and King
Marock and Noteworthy Girls in Jack Tales
Robin Hood, Mountain Man by James Taylor Adams (see also "The Outlaw Boy" in Chase, Grandfather Tales)
The Three Gold Nuts by James Taylor Adams. See Whitebear Whittington
Through Thick and Thin by James Taylor Adams
Kidd, Ronald (comp.). On
Top of Old Smoky: A Collection of Songs and Stories from Appalachia.
Nashville, TN: Ideals Children's Books, 1992.
The
Frog He Went A'Courting
Jack
and the Bean Tree
Jack and the Cat. See Cat 'n Mouse
Jack
and the Varmints
Kindt, Carol Lee and Linda
Rockwell High. Once Upon a Mountain Tale: Eight Jack and Grandfather
Tales. Lakeland, TN: Memphis Musicraft, 1995.
The
Green Gourd
Jack and the Big Ol' Rock (part 1
of
Three Sillies tale, see also
Foolish Jack)
Jack
and the Northwest Wind
Jack
and Ol' Mossyfoot
Jack
and the Robbers
Jack
and the Tale Without End
Soap!
Soap! Soap!
The
Three Sillies
Lechner, Judith V.
Allyn & Bacon Anthology of Traditional Literature. New York:
Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2004. (Appalachian tales listed here)
The
Birds and Animals Stickball Game
First Man and First Woman
How the Possum Lost His Tail
Jack
and the Varmints
Legend of the Corn Beads
The
Little Old Rusty Cook Stove in the Woods
The
Origin of Strawberries
Rabbit Escapes from the Wolves
Spearfinger
McCarthy, William Bernard, ed. Cinderella in America: A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales. Jackson: U Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Chapter 11. The Southern Mountains I: From the Blue Ridge to the Ozarks
Little Horny and Big Horny
Mr. Fox. See Pretty Polly - or - Mister
Fox
Polly, Nancy, and Muncimeg. See Mutsmag
The Old Man and the Witch
Old Bear. See Sody
Sallyraytus - and - The Bad Bear
Old Kitty Rollins (from Ozarks, similar to Sop Doll)
Rawhead and Bloodybones. See Gallymanders
Three Drops of Blood. See Whitebear Whittington
Three Versions of the Juniper Tree (murdered step-children)
Chapter 12. The Southern Mountains II: The Hicks-Harmon Beech Mountain Tradition
Fill, Bowl, Fill. See Jack and the King's Girl
Jack and Old Fire Dragon
Little Dicky Wigbun (reprint from Carter 1925, above)
Old Stiff Dick. See Jack and the
Varmints
Sop Doll
Three Little Pigs
Roberts, Leonard. I
Bought Me a Dog: A Dozen Authentic Folktales from the Southern Mountains. Berea, KY: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1954. (Also 13 folk riddles
and song "The Bachelor Boy" in this book. Some of these tales are also in SHS, South
from Hell-fer-Sartin', 1955.)
Bag O' Gold. See Gallymanders
The Candy Doll. See Jack and the Sop
Doll
Dick and Dock (SHS no. 56). See
Jack and the
Three Sillies
The Fox and the Cat. See
Jack and the Robbers
I Bought Me a Dog. See
The Walking
Catfish and Other Fish Tales
Jack and the Bull's Horns (SHS no 20b). See Jack and the Heifer Hide
Jack Outwits the Giants
(SHS no. 4). See
Jack and the
Giants
The Magic
Sausage Mill
Merrywise (SHS no. 10a). See
Mutsmag
The One-Eyed Giant. See
Jack and the
Giants
Raglif Jaglif Tetartlif Pole.
See
Jack and King
Marock and
Noteworthy Girls in Jack Tales
The Witch Store-Robber
(SHS no. 35a, witch takes boy through keyhole and robs store)
Also 13 folk riddles
Roberts, Leonard.
Nippy and the
Yankee Doodle, and Other Authentic Folk Tales from the Southern Mountains. Berea, KY: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1958.
(These tales also in Old Greasybeard, 1969.)
Big Jim (a hunting tall
tale)
Foolish Jack
The Hanted House
Jack and the Bean Stalk.
See
Jack and the
Bean Tree
Jack the Giant Killer.
See
Jack and the
Giants
Jonis and the Giant's Girl.
See
Jack and King
Marock
The King's Well.
See
Jack and the
Giants
Nippy and the Yankee Doodle.
See
Mutsmag
Rushiecoat and the King's Son.
See
Ashpet and Other Cinderella Variants
The Sow and her Three Pigs.
See
The Three Little Pigs and the Fox
Also 8 folk riddles
Roberts, Leonard. Old
Greasybeard: Tales From the Cumberland Gap. 1969. Pikeville, KY: Pikeville College Press, 1980.
Scheer, George F. Cherokee
Animal Tales. Illus. Robert Frankenberg. 1968. Tulsa, OK: Council Oak
Books, 1992
The First Fire
How the Deer Got His Horns. See Deer Antlers and Peach Trees
How the Groundhog Lost His Tail
How the Rabbit Stole the Otter's
Coat. See
How Rabbit
Lost His Tail - or - How Rabbit Stole Otter's Coat
How the Redbird Got His Color
How the Terrapin Beat the Rabbit
How the Turkey Got His Beard
The Rabbit and the Possum Seek a
Wife
The Rabbit and the Tar Wolf.
See
Brer Rabbit Tales
Why the Deer's Teeth Are Blunt
Why the Mole Lives Underground
Why the Possum's Tail is Bare
Why the Terrapin's Shell is
Scarred. See
Kanahena - or - Why the Turtle's Shell is
Cracked
Shelby, Ann. The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other
Appalachian Folktales. Illus. Paula McArdle. Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press,
2007.
The
Adventures of Molly Whuppie. See
Mutsmag
Grind
Mill Grind. See
Jack and the
Magic Mill or The Magic Sausage Mill
Jack
and the Christmas Beans. See
Jack and the Bean Tree
Just
Past Dreaming Rock
Molly
and Blunderbore. See
Jack and the
Giants
Molly
and Jack. See
Jack and King
Marock
Molly
and the Ogre Who Would Not Pick Up. See
Jack and the
Giants
Molly and the Unwanted Boyfriends
Molly Fiddler. See "Freddy and his Fiddle" at Wicked John and the Devil
Molly the Giant Slayer.
See
Jack and the Giants
Molly, Jack, and the Sillies.
See
Jack and the
Three Sillies
Pig Tale
Runaway Cornbread. See
Runaway Cakes and Gingerbread Boys
Tater Toe. See
Tailypo
Stephenson, Rex, story theatre scripts and retold tales for the Jack Tale Players,
Ferrum College, VA.
Ashpet
Catskins - unpublished
Foolish Jack
Hardy Hard Head
Jack and Ol' Greasy Beard
Jack and the Hainted House
Jack and His Lump
of Silver
Jack and the Giants
Jack and the
King's Girl
Jack and the Mean Old Man. See Jack and Ol' Greasy Beard
Jack and the Robbers
Jack and the Witch's Tale. See
Gallymander and Jack and the Sop Doll
Jack Fear-No-Man and
Jack and the Three
Giants. See
Jack and the
Giants
Jack's Adventures with the
King's Girl.
See
Jack and the King's Girl
Jack's Mother's Second Marriage. See The Two Old
Women's Bet
Mutsmag
Quare Jack - unpublished. See Jack and the Doctor's Girl
Soldier Jack
The Three Old
Women's Bet
The Two Lost Babes
- unpublished
Wicked John
and the Devil
Telling Tales
series of videos for KY Educational Television (Appalachian tales
listed here)
Ash Pet
Balaam Foster's Fiddle
Cat
and Rat
Hardy Hard Head
Jack and the
Giants
Jack and the
Magic Mill
Little Deer and
Mother Earth
Mutsmag
Soap
The
Two Gals. See Gallymanders
Wicked John
Torrence, Jackie. Jack
Tales section. Jackie
Tales: The Magic of Creating Stories and the Art of Telling Them.
New York: Avon, 1998.
Jack and
Hardy Hardhead
Soldier Jack
Jack's Trip to Hell (from a
Scottish source)
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