"Jack and the Doctor's Girl." In Chase, Richard. The Jack Tales. Boston: Houghton, 1943, pp. 114-26. With several drawings by Berkeley Williams, Jr. Because the rich doctor thinks Jack is too poor for his daughter, Jack goes to seek his fortune but falls under the control of thieves who make him steal. He's so successful at using tricks to steal that they give him money and let him go. With another series of tricks, he accomplishes tasks set by the doctor so he gets to marry the daughter. In the Appendix, Chase prints a different version recorded by Frank Proffitt (Beech Creek, NC) from his father. Chase also mentions a version from Virginia called "Jack the Thief." Chase's notes give other parallels of tale type 1525, The Master Thief, from different cultures. Davenport, Tom, and Gary Carden. "Jack and the Dentist's Daughter." From the Brothers Grimm: A Contemporary Retelling of American Folktales and Classic Stories. Fort Atkinson, WI: Highsmith, 1992. Story with photographs from the film. Jack and the Dentist’s Daughter. Dir. Tom Davenport. Videocassette. Davenport Films, 1983. 40 minutes. This adaptation uses an African-American cast and mid-twentieth-century setting. See also AppLit's Bibliography of Davenport's Fairy Tale Films. Lesson Plan on Mountain Humor and this Film. “Jack and the Doctor’s Girl.” Told by Orville Hicks. The Jack Tales Festival. 2002. Also includes "Big Jack & Little Jack" by Connie Regan-Blake, "Jack's First House" by David Joe Miller, Jack & the Frogs by Dianne Hackworth, and Mutsmag by Charlotte Ross. Videotape from the 4th annual festival to benefit the Ray and Rosa Hicks fund, August 17, 2002, at Bolick Pottery and Traditions Pottery, near Blowing Rock, NC. For more information, The Latest Tale. . . . by Dianne Hackworth in Dianne's Storytelling Site, or call 336-877-4110. “Jack and the Doctor’s Daughter.” Told by Billy Edd Wheeler. Some Mountain Tales about Jack. Told and Sung by Billy Edd Wheeler. Vol. III. Spoken Arts Cassette Library for Young Listeners, 1980. The Thieving Boy. Oral folktale told by Fagate Bryant to James M. Hylton, 1942. James Taylor Adams Collection. JTA 1175. Full text in this web site. Jack becomes a "master thief" because his father sends him off to be a good thief. Since his two older brothers had become thieves when they were sent off to college to make good, the father decides he might as well achieve success by ordering Jack to be a thief. Jack proves his skill by stealing a sheet off his father's bed while the man is sleeping in it. See also: Jack and the Robbers, in which Jack and animal friends chase off robbers but do not fall in with their ways. Hardy Hardhead, in which Jack gets the King's girl away from a witch by beating the witch in a series of contests. Mutsmag. In Rex Stephenson's adaptation, Mutsmag cleverly convinces a group of robbers to go after her mean sisters instead of killing her. Compare with: The Master Thief. The Grimm Brothers. No. 192. Household Tales, trans. Margaret Hunt (London: George Bell, 1884). Reprinted at Fairy Tales web site by English Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Jack the Cunning Thief. Irish tale retold by Joseph Jacobs in More Celtic Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1894. Reprinted in Sur La Lune Fairy Tale Pages by Heidi Anne Heiner. The Master Thief. Originally from P. C. Asbjornsen. Edited by Andrew Lang in The Red Fairy Book. Reprinted at Rick Walton, Children's Author: Classic Tales and Fables. Last
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