This page is under construction. "The Magic Sausage Mill." 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. Rpt. in Smith, Jimmy Neil, ed. Why the Possum's Tail is Bare and Other Classic Southern Stories. New York: Avon, 1993. Roberts notes that the oral tale he collected in KY may have been influenced by written Norse tales (see "Why the Sea is Salt" below). This is a cautionary tale about greed, which is also a pourquoi tale about why the sea is salty. Shelby, Anne. "Grind Mill Grind." In The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales. Illus. Paula McArdle. Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 2007. pp. 48-54. There is one humorous, cartoon-like black and white drawing at the beginning of each of the 14 tales in this book, in this one showing the greedy rich brother standing on a chair surrounded by a flood of gravy and fish in pots, with the magic mill spewing out more behind him. Shelby's essay "About the Stories" is interesting but does not discuss this tale. For more on Shelby's book see Appalachian Folktale Collections K-Z. "Jack and the Magic Mill." Told by Tom Bledsoe, Rich Kirby, and Joy D'Elia. Telling Tales. KY Educational TV series of folktale programs. In Part Two. See http://www.ket.org/education.for information on programs and videos. Teacher's Guide online (Part One has Table of Contents) contains summaries of each tale and discussion questions and activities. In this version Jack's brother Tom buys the magic mill from Jack to make money selling pizza, but can't make the mill stop producing pizza. Then Will buys it to make salt and doesn't know how to stop it so it ends up in the ocean. See also: Other Appalachian tales in which hungry people get a magic gift that produces plentiful food, such as a magic tablecloth in Gail Haley's Jack and the Bean Tree. In Anne Shelby's "Jack and the Christmas Beans," Jack is given a basket that produces food on command. For details, see Shelby in Appalachian Folktales in General Collections, Journals, Web Sites. Many tales contain brothers who are mean to Jack and other main characters. In Wicked John and the Devil, a wicked man brings disaster on himself and the end in some versions explains the origins of swamp gas or other things. Other pourquoi tales about animals, natural phenomena, and human inventions, such as The First Fire, or How the Water Spider Captured Fire, are listed in the Native American section of this folktale index and in AppLit's picture book bibliography. Pourquoi elements are found in some tall tales such as Swamp Angel, Tony Beaver, and Steven Kellogg's Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett. See study guide on Tall Tales and Jack Tales. Compare with: "The Magic Porridge Pot." 1906 version at http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=lmr&book=k1rainbow&story=pot. Adapted by Tomi de Paola in Strega Nona. See de Paola's web site for discussion of the origin of his tale. "Why the Sea is Salt" from a 1912 book East of the Sun, West of the Moon. In Heidi Anne Heiner's SurLaLune Fairy Tales Pages. Also gives version from Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen and Moe, Jorgen. East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon. George Webbe Dasent, translator. Popular Tales from the Norse. Edinburgh: David Douglass, 1888. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" This page created 11/3/07 Last update: 11/06/2007 |
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