The tales in this book, I heard from my mother. My mother heard them from a storyteller nearly sixty years ago. It seems my grandfather never thought twice about hiring a storyteller to warm the cockles of his little girls heart. She listened to many stories, though she couldn't always recall them, she passed many along to me, as well, though I couldnt recall them all either, to tell the truth, I had long since forgotten even the stories in this book. Years later, I returned to my father's house ...