Chase, Richard. "The Heifer Hide." The Jack Tales. Boston: Houghton, 1943, pp. 161-71. With two illustrations by Berkeley Williams, Jr. Chase's notes discuss regional and international variants of tale type 1535, The Rich and the Poor Peasant. Chase, Richard. "Jack and the Bull." The Jack Tales. Boston: Houghton, 1943, pp. 21-30. With two illustrations by Berkeley Williams, Jr. Chase's notes discuss the combination of several tale types in this tale. “Jack and the Heifer Hide.” Some Mountain Tales about Jack. Told and sung by Billy Edd Wheeler. Vol. III. Spoken Arts Cassette Library for Young Listeners, 1980. "Jack and the Heifer Hide." Told by Orville Hicks. In Mule Egg Seller and Appalachian Storyteller. Compact Disc. Boone, NC: Orville Hicks, 1998. 20:35 minutes. "Jack and the Heifer's Hide." Told by Orville Hicks. In Carryin’ On: Jack Tales for Children of All Ages. Audio cassette. Whitesburg, KY: June Appal Recordings, 1990. "Jack and the King's Daughters." Retold by Jerry Harmon, musician and storyteller (direct descendant of Council Harmon, patriarch of the famous Hicks-Harmon family of storytellers in NC). Audio file online at Jerry Harmon: "The Smoky Mountain Gypsy. This tale is very similar to "Jack and the Bull" in Chase's The Jack Tales. Jack is bound out to a man whose wife and three girls hate Jack. The wife tries to starve Jack. A bull offers Jack cornbread and milk that he finds by removing the bull's horns. One of the girls is one-eyed and she can't see what Jack is doing. He also tricks the two-eyed girl by putting her to sleep with fiddle tune. The three-eyed girl tries harder to keep her third eye open and see where Jack gets food. Jack and the bull trick the mother when she insists on trying to kill the bull, and she is killed. Jack escapes with the bull, who eats grass and drinks from streams while Jack gets food and drink from its horns. Jack and the bull travel on until they meet a series of three bulls that Jack's bull has to fight. Different colored bubbles in the stream signal the approach of the bulls of different colors that Jack's bull kills. Jack follows the instructions of his bull after it is killed by a white bull, taking its horns and part of its hide (the stripe) with him as he travels and then seeks work. A woman gives Jack work herding sheep. Jack expects he can handle her when a feller tells him she's a witch. When she attacks him, the bull's horns and stripe help him ward off her three attempts to choke him when he says, "Tie, stripe, tie. Beat, horn, beat." Each time Jack lets her go from being beaten and tied up, he gets new clothes, money and a horse. When his money begins to give out, Jack seeks work. He helps a farmer shake down apples for his hogs and save them from a giant woman who has been stealing the fat hogs. The horns and tie, along with the pigs, whoop the giant woman when she threatens to kill Jack and the farmer cuts her head off. Jack gets a poke full of money, then decides to go home and saves his money instead of spending it this time. "Jack and the Heifer Hide." As told by Maud Gentry Long of Hot Springs, NC, great-granddaughter of Council Harmon. In Jack in Two Worlds: Contemporary North American Tales and their Tellers. Ed. William Bernard McCarthy. Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1994, pp. 93-122. With notes on vocal inflections; an introductory essay by Bill Ellis, "The Gentry-Long Tradition and Roots of Revivalism"; and a photo of Maud Long. Ward, Marshall. "Jack and the Heifer Hide," a long version with an introduction by Ward about his family's storytelling traditions (both collected 1977). In McGowan, Thomas, ed. "Four Beech Mountain Jack Tales." North Carolina Folklore Journal 49.2 (Fall/Winter 2002): 69-115. Reprinted in honor of Thomas McGowan from vol. 26.2 (1978). Also includes Ward's "Cat 'n Mouse" (1944); and Ray Hicks' "Jack and the Three Steers" (1963) and "Whickity Whack" (composite of tellings from 1973 and 1974). Ward comments on his preference for telling stories to groups of children. McGowan gives notes on parallel versions, sources, and sound recordings of this tale. Oxford, Cheryl Lynne. "They Call Him 'Lucky Jack': Three Performance-Centered Case Studies of Storytelling in Watauga County, North Carolina." Ph.D. Dissertation. Northwestern University, 1987. Abstract available online in DAI, 48, no. 08A (1987): 2135. Oxford studied Marshall Ward (telling "Jack in the Lions' Den."), Stanley Hicks (telling "Jack and the Bull") and Ray Hicks (telling three Jack tales). "Within the boundaries of one mountain county and one märchen cycle, these regional raconteurs demonstrate remarkably different storytelling styles. The challenge posed for this ethnographic study has been to capture in print the performance artistry of these stellar storytellers." Outlines previous research on NC Jack tales, and "the development of the performance-centered approach to folkloristics, beginning in 1923." Chapter V is reprinted in "The Storyteller as Shaman: Ray Hicks Telling his Jack Tales." NC Folklore Journal, vol. 38 (1991): 75-186, with photos, quotations, analysis, and transcriptions of "Jack and Ray's Hunting Trip," "Hardyhardhead," "The Heifer Hide," and "Jack and the Varmints." (See more under Oxford in Background Resources on Appalachian Folktales and Storytelling.) "Jack and the Bull's Horns." In Roberts, Leonard. I Bought Me a Dog: A Dozen Authentic Folktales from the Southern Mountains. Berea, KY: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1954. See also: "Dirty Jack." In Roberts, Leonard. South From Hell-fer-Sartin': Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales. U of KY Press, 1955. Rpt. Berea, KY: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1964, pp. 97-100. "A little old dirty, ragged boy" has a bull that dies so he gets a good price for its hide. He pays back the men who caused the bull's death by convincing them to skin their horses, ticking them into beheading his own granny, and then convincing them to kill their granny. Dirty Jack and the two fellers keep thinking they kill each other, and then they show up again. "Snick and Snack." In Roberts, Leonard. Old Greasybeard: Tales from the Cumberland Gap. Illus. Leonard Epstein. Detroit: Folklore Associates, 1969. Rpt. Pikeville, KY: Pikeville College Press, 1980. Snick kills his poorer brother Snack's horse. Snack claims it can talk and makes money, then tricks Snick into killing his horses. After a long series of tricks Snick is dead and Snack "never had to play a joke on anybody again." Both these tales in Roberts also contain motifs found in Old Dry Frye. "Whistling Jimmy." In Burrison, John A., ed. Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South. Athens, GA: U of GA Pr, 1989. Recorded in 1969 in Helen, White, County, GA. Whistlin' Jimmy convinces two brothers to kill all their cattle, claiming his old cowhide is a magic animal that knows everything and then sells for $500. When the brothers try to kill him, he tricks them and drowns them in their own sack. Compare with: Hans Christian Andersen, "Little Claus and Big Claus," a similar story involving a horse's skin. Published by Andersen in 1835. Reprinted online from 1872 translation by H. P. Paull, with black and white illustrations. Last update: 03/17/2008 |
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