Liz Warren | Storyteller

Jack Tales are perhaps the most well known stories to come from Appalachian culture. They are considered wonder tales and derive from an old Germanic oral narrative tradition used for the education of princes. Like many cultural traditions in the Appalachian Mountains today, these stories were close to the hearts of the earliest emigrants who came to America and ended up into the highlands of the New World. They were discovered in abundance by collector Richard Chase in the 1930's and 40's, by scholars Leonard Roberts and Marie Campbell in the 1950's, and by folklorists right into the twenty-first century.