Family Myths and Folk Tales
I posted this on our College Hill Farm Website some time ago. Since the website is now defunct and with Halloween fast approaching I thought it appropriate to revive it for this site. Now my family, especially my grandparents, loved to tell tales to us kids. Whether it was haint(ghost) tales, myths, or hunting excursions. There was always a tale to be told sitting on the porch breaking beans or shelling corn. Granny, mom’s mother, loved to tell haint tales. Every time we were working on the porch breaking beans we would be talking of old times and a haint tale or two would come about. They were always told as if she was there and witnessed the event as all good tales are. My great uncle Floyd used to say never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Now that is the way of it in Appalachia, the old folks told family lore and information by way of oral traditions. The tales always included sisters, brothers, grandparents, so you had a frame of reference and you could dr