v. 1. The nation's most celebrated storytelling family : the Hickses and the Harmons.
How I bought and stole my wife ;
Telling tales to my grandkids ;
The great pumpkin ;
Giant mosquitoes ;
Jack, Tom, and Will ;
The marriage of the king's daughter ;
Stiff Dick ;
The mad king ;
The bean tree ;
Little Dicky Whigburn -- Samuel Harmon
Catskins -- Alberta Harmon and Samuel Harmon
Old black dog -- Alberta Harmon
When my mother told Jack tales ;
Jack and the giants' newground ;
Jack and the drill ;
Jack and the varmints ;
Jack and the bull ;
Jack and the doctor's girl ;
Jack and the northwest wind ;
Jack and one of his hunting trips ;
Old Fire Dragaman ;
Love : a riddle tale ;
Jack and the heifer hide -- Maud Long
Jack and the river -- Daron Douglas
Hooray for Old Sloosha! ;
Feathers in her hair -- Roby Monroe Hicks
The Yape -- Buna Hicks
Jack and the robbers ;
The unicorn and the wild boar ;
The witch woman on the stone mountain on the Tennessee side ;
Grinding at the mill ;
Mule eggs -- Ray Hicks.
v. 1. Sara Cleveland : Irish American tales from Brant Lake, New York.
Finn MacCool and the rocks ;
Black horses ;
Telling fortunes with cards ;
Spiritualism and fortune telling ;
Pull, God damn you, pull! ;
The kiln is burning ;
Baby's gone ;
The witch and the donkey ;
The lady and the fairy ;
Little Red Night Cap ;
Old Graybeard ;
Shiver and shake ;
Rob Haww ;
One thing the devil can't do -- Sara Cleveland.
v. 1. J.D. Suggs : itinerant master.
How I learned my tales ;
Mr. Snake and the farmer ;
Buzzard goes to Europe ;
Monkey apes his master ;
Efan outruns the Lord ;
Mr. Fox and Mr. Deer ;
Brother Rabbit rides Brother Bear ;
Brother Bear meets man ;
Brother Bear and Brother Deer hold a meeting ;
The devil's daughter ;
Where um-hum came from ;
Skin, don't you know me? ;
The great watermelon ;
Pull me up, Simon ;
Brother Bill, the wild cowboy -- J.D. Suggs.
v. 1. Joshua Alley : down-east tales from Jonesport, Maine.
The bear's tale ;
Man Warren Beal and the Indians ;
Wrestling the chief ;
Chute's wedge trick ;
Dodging the wolves ;
Open, saysem ;
The murderers ;
The haunted sloop ;
Groans, gold, dreams, and the devil -- Joshua Alley.
v. 1. Will "Gillie" Gilchrist : tales of injustice in the urban South.
Robbed, and taken for a thief ;
More cop trouble ;
Courtroom trouble ;
More courtroom trouble ;
Cop, courtroom, and jail trouble -- Will "Gillie" Gilchrist.
v. 1. Jane Muncy Fugate : healing tales for a mountain child and troubled adults.
How I learned my tales ;
Merrywise ;
One-my-darling ;
Old Greasybeard ;
The king's well ;
Rawhead and Bloodybones ;
The three sillies ;
The tarnished star ;
Tailipoe -- (1955) ;
Tailipoe -- (2001) / -- Jane Muncy Fugate.
v. 2. Nation's most celebrated folklore collectors, John A. and Alan Lomax : out West with John A. Lomax. I don't know how to run / -- Joseph Graham
You can cook breakfast, too -- W.D. (Bill) Casey
My brother's last ride -- Sloan Matthews
Getting stuck on a pony ;
Shooting a wife -- Sam Hill
Hard times in the Toyah country -- Annie Agnes Kingston.
v. 2. Nation's most celebrated folklore collectors, John A. and Alan Lomax : down in the delta with Alan Lomax .
John loses the race ;
Jack guesses what is under the pot ;
The preacher and his hogs ;
The preacher who could always be trapped by women -- "Buck Asa" Ulisses Jefferson
The woman who couldn't count ;
The lady and her three daughters -- M.C. Orr.
v. 2. Nation's most celebrated folklore collectors, John A. and Alan Lomax : in prison and at home with "Clear Rock".
Watermelon story ;
Cat story ;
Music for me to run by ;
The leaky house -- Mose "Clear Rock" Platt.
v. 2. Nation's most celebrated folklore collectors, John A. and Alan Lomax : Aunt Molly Jackson, playing, courting, witches, ghosts, and lies.
My first dance ;
How we entertained ourselves : songs, rhymes, toasts ;
An unreasonable lie : the land of the Yeahoes ;
Courting hungry ;
Churning up the devil ;
Becoming a witch and undoing spells ;
The witch and the witch doctor ;
Ridden by a witch ;
Living in a haunted house -- Aunt Molly Jackson.
v. 2. Nation's most celebrated folklore collectors, John A. and Alan Lomax : on the range with J. Frank Dobie.
My father prays ;
Hilo! ;
Beef and tallow -- J. Frank Dobie.
v. 2. Legendary America.
The wolf boy ;
The orphan girl that died ;
The child and the snake -- Lula Davis
A haunted house -- Laurie Hance
Lights that listen ;
Sounds that listen ;
Natural haints ;
The scarecrow dream -- Ellis Ogle
The Yankee and Marcum -- Burl Hammons
The thing on the bridge ;
The vanishing hitchhiker -- Newton Downey
The three knocks : a grandmother's ghost -- Lillian Doane
The visions of Lloyd Chandler -- Garrett Chandler
Witches -- Quincy Higgins
The spider witch -- Leozie Smith
Nightmare ridden ;
The preachers and the spooks -- John Jackson
Fairy forms -- Margaret Sullivan
Banshees and ghosts -- Father Sarsfield O'Sullivan
Raising the dead : the Nephite on the road -- Dr. and Mrs. Norman Freestone.
v. 2. Tall tale America.
Paul Bunyon on Round River -- Perry Allen
Paul Bunyon moves in circles again -- Bill McBride
A liars' contest -- five residents of the California camps
My three favorite lies -- Vernon "Shorty" Allen
The peach tree deer -- Bill Robinson
Cornered by a polar bear -- Michael Bruick
A land-loving catfish -- Doc McConnell
The biggest liar in the state -- Tillman Cadle
Swinging pigs -- Lee Webb
The roguish cow -- Gaines Kilgore
The night the lamp flame froze -- Mary Celestia Parler
The gun ain't loaded -- Frank Mahaffey.
v. 2. Jokes.
Dividing the dead -- Ellis Ogle
Two at the gate ;
Possums and pigs ;
The biggest liar in the state ;
He'll have to swim ;
Cold as hell /Son House --
The preacher and the bully -- Lula Davis
Baptists and Presbyterians ;
The Devilists' revival -- Joan Moser
Jamie the mountain lion -- Margaret Chase
Pedro de Urdemalas and the plums ;
Pedro de Urdedmalas and the pigs ;
The indito and his wives ;
The indito and the banker -- Arthur L. Campa
Unwatering the mine ;
Tom the burro ;
Burros and beechnut -- Levette Jay Davidson
Willie and the devil ;
Old One-Eye -- Gaines Kilgore
J. Golden Kimball in his native language -- Hector Lee
Counting the wrong fish -- John Persons
I love ewe ;
Sports as markers -- Archer Gilfillan
John and Old Mistress's nightgown ;
John and the bear ;
John and the coon -- John Davis
Monkey and Buzzard ;
Twenty-five roosters and one hen ;
Thinning corn ;
That's the one -- Cora Jackson
The cook -- Paul E. Young
A mountain wedding -- Uncle Alec Dunford.
v. 2. Passing it on : stories for children.
The girl who didn't mind her mother -- Eartha M.M. White
The crooked old man -- Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Grown toe -- Glen Muncy Anderson
The forty-mile jumper -- Mary Celestia Parker
Gaillum, Singo, et Moliseau -- Barry Jean Ancelet
Show me your paw -- Caroline Spurlock Ancelet
Skullbone -- Debra Anderson
La mata de higo =
The fig tree -- Ziomara Andux
Señorita Martinez Cucuracha y Señor Ratoncito Pérez =
Miss Martinez Cockroach and Mr. Pérez Mouse -- Evelila Andux
Antonio, cortador de leñal =
Antonio the woodcutter -- Martin Noriega
The fox, the rabbit, and the tarbaby -- E.L. Smith
The tarbaby -- Cora Jackson
Jack and the beanstalk -- Wilbur Roberts
Little Nippy -- Lee Wallin.
v. 2. Voicing the past, tales tracing the paths of American history : Native American visions.
The old woman's vision -- Amoneeta Sequoyah
The blackfish -- George Young (Doctor Stepping Fast)
How the terrapin got scars on his shell -- George Griffith.
v. 2. Voicing the past, tales tracing the paths of American history : slavery days and the Civil War.
Romey Howard : freedom in the grave ;
Romey Howard : fresh meat tonight -- E.L. Smith
Remembering slavery -- Laura Smalley
The sisters and the renegades ;
Great-Aunt Becky's beau -- Lee Winniford.
v. 2. Voicing the past, tales tracing the paths of American history : struggles with nature and neighbors.
Dream no more -- Maggie Hammons Parker
She saved the children -- Mary Eva Baker
The one-legged Indian -- Dominick Gallagher
Panther Bill -- Jake Sutton
Trying to mix liquor and laughs ;
The biggest bear that's ever been killed -- James L. Huskey
Trials of a dog driver -- Charles Carter
I'm still here : healing at home ;
I'm a man too : fights every night -- Vories Moreau.
v. 2. Voicing the past, tales tracing the paths of American history : Dust Bowl tales.
Dust Bowl refugees ;
The man on the road -- Woody Guthrie
Indians, locusts, floods, and dust : an Okie family saga -- Flora Robertson.
v. 2. Folktales in the making, the September 11 Project.
September 11 in Iowa City, Iowa -- Janet Freeman
September 11 in Red Hook, Brooklyn ;
Heaven in the middle of hell ;
Christian Regenhard -- Lillie Haws.