Appalachian tales Archives - Appalachian History

Me & Bessie went out hunting any ole time

‘Sure-shot Bessie,’ from “Bundle of Troubles, and other Tarheel Tales,” by Workers of the Writers Program of the WPA in North Carolina.

The Creator (E-do-da) had heard their prayers & songs & had given them a gift. The Cherokee kept these stone crosses and always honored them.

You know “Jack & the Beanstalk.” There’s more where that came from! Jack Tales are part of a cycle of folk stories that revolve around–Jack.

Man stays in a scary motel overnight. Finds dead man under bed intended for him. Puts dead man ON bed and gets UNDER bed.

I told you if you got out & built roads & cards and did things like that on Sunday that’s what’d happen to you. The booger man would get you.