Chase, Richard. "Jack King Marock." In The Jack Tales. Boston: Houghton, 1943, pp. 135-50. With three drawings by Berkeley Williams, Jr. King Marock is called a witch and the narrator says in the end that some say he is the devil. Jack beats him at cards but needs help from the king's girl to escape with her. The Appendix lists many variants of Tale Type 313C, The Girl as Helper in the Hero's Flight. Haley, Gail E. "Jack of Hearts and King Marock." In Mountain Jack Tales. New York: Dutton, 1992. Eight Jack tales and "Muncimeg and the Giant" are introduced by a storyteller named Poppyseed, based on Haley's own grandmother. The other tales are "Jack and the Northwest Wind," "The Lion and the Unicorn," "The Longest Story," "Jack and Catherine," Jack and Uncle Thimblewit," "Jack and the Flying Ship," "Jack and Old Raggedy Bones." Includes a Glossary and Bibliography, as well as discussions "About the Stories" and "About the Art" (black and white wood engravings). (Cassette recording: Louisville, KY: American Printing House for the Blind, 1996.) "Jack of Hearts and King Marock." In Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales. Commissioned and first produced at Theater of the First Amendment. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2000. Conceived by Mary Hall Surface (from KY) and David Maddox (from NC). Written by Mary Hall Surface. Lyrics by Mary Hall Surface and David Maddox. Music by David Maddox. Play with music based on Appalachian folktales and songs, including also "Jack and the Wonder Beans," "Catskins," "Jack's First Job," "The Sow and her Three Pigs," and "The Enchanted Tree." Also produced as set of 2 CDs. Photos and background on how the retellings were developed at Sing Down the Moon. Picture, summary of each tale and downloadable script excerpts at Dramatic Publishing Online Catalog. Also produced at Theater at Lime Kiln (Lexington, Virginia, July 2005). "Jack and Old King Morock." In Charles L. Perdue, Jr., ed. Outwitting the Devil: Jack Tales from Wise County Virginia. Santa Fe, NM: Ancient City, 1987. Perdue reprints the tale from the James Taylor Adams Collection of Virginia folklore, archived in the Blue Ridge Institute. Perdue groups this tale with "Willie and the Devil," in which the devil's daughter helps the hero escape. Copies of these tales collected by Adams in the 1940s will appear in AppLit soon. "Jack and King Marock." Part of play Appalachian Jack Tales at Sellersville Theater, On Stage & Off (Children's Theater Production company), Sellersville, PA, Summer 2005. With "Jack and the Magic Bean" and "Jack's First Job." Related Appalachian Tales: Willie and the Devil has a very similar plot. A version from the James Taylor Adams Collection is reprinted at this link in AppLit. Davis, Donald. "Time Jack Learned About Old and New." Jack Always Seeks His Fortune: Authentic Appalachian Jack Tales. Little Rock: August House, 1992. Also published by August House as Southern Jack Tales, 1997. For more details on this book, see Appalachian Folktales in Collections. Davis, Donald. "Something Old, Something New." In Jack and Granny Ugly. Audio recording. August House Audio, 1997. This 29-minute tale begins with Tom, Will, and Jack leaving home to seek their fortunes one after the other. An old woman comes to the door disguised as the king. Tom and Will try to impress the king but don't let him help with work, so the dinner burns, the guest goes away, and the brothers leave without being heard of again. Only Jack lets the king help with lots of work, and receives a gift from the old woman in disguise. He later uses the death's eye bottle to see that the real king's girl is dying (as in Soldier Jack). He has risked losing his head to get the reward for curing the girl so he knocks the skeleton he sees to pieces with a poker and the girl recovers. The amazed king tests Jack with three tasks before giving him his daughter and crown. The girl knows that a magic old tool instead of a new one must be used to split many trees with an ax, cut with a mowing scythe, and clean the barn with a pitchfork. The girl has to keep reminding Jack to follow her advice as he tries a more useful-looking new tool each time. After he completes each task, Jack tells the king he finishes everything because he is a good boy. When the king then tries to hide the girl in a group of three girls, Jack finally wins by recognizing that the one in old clothes is the one he wants to marry. He later gets tired of being king and hands that job over to his brother. "Raglif Jaglif Tetartlif Pole." As told by Leonard Roberts. In Jack in Two Worlds: Contemporary North American Tales and Their Tellers. Ed. William Bernard McCarthy. Chapel Hill: U of NC Pr, 1994, pp. 168-203. With a photo of Roberts, an essay on Roberts and the tale, and a transcription of the oral tale that notes vocal and non-verbal features and audience responses. McCarthy identifies "Roberts's favorite story" as "a remarkably full version of" Type 313, The Girl as Helper in the Hero's Flight. A pretty girl helps Jack obtain magic help to complete three impossible tasks (including capturing wild horses) and escape from a man who threatens to cut his head off. The girl has learned "a little magic" from the old man while living with him. Jack and the girl need more magic to run away on a horse named Raglif Jaglif and then get married. "Raglif Jaglif Tetartlif Pole." In Roberts, Leonard (collector). I Bought Me A Dog, and Other Folktales from the Southern Mountains. Berea, KY: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1954. Small black and white drawings by Mary Rogers. Roberts notes that this Kentucky version of the story was almost lost during the century before he heard it, until a relative told him the tale that had been passed down through her branch of his family. See also Soldier Jack (for the card game with devils) and Noteworthy Girls in Jack Tales. Compare with: "John and the Devil's Daughter." In Hamilton, Virginia. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales. Illus. Leo and Diane Dillon. New York: Knopf, 1985. The daughter instructs John as they flee together from her father. Charles L. Perdue, Jr., in Outwitting the Devil (see above) refers to another African American version in Richard Dorson, American Negro Folktales. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Pub., 1967, pp. 268-71. Mastermaid from Norway, collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in the nineteenth century. Revised translation 2001 by D. L. Ashliman, Univ. of Pittsburgh. Aarne-Thompson type 313. This page
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