Appalachia | The Witch, The Wizard & The Black Dog  

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Hey brother! I got an old witch story for ya. We were raised in Macon County, Alabama, and that's the tail-ead of the Appalachians. My granny Haywood was born in 1907, and she said that when she was a young girl, they were an old witch woman who lived in the woods close to their house. Well, the old woman used to come by their house all the time, and she would cut across their pasture to get to the main road. Well, great grandaddy told her to go another way and that she wasn't welcome on their property. Granny Haywood said that from that day, all sorts of things started happening around the house. The cow dried up, the hens quit laying, and grandaddy's hunting dog died. They'd hear all sort of noises in the woods at night. Like folks screaming and wild animals howling. It kept them up almost all night long. Well, great granny got tired of it after a while, and she went out to the edge of the woods one night and yelled out, "Be a real woman and come face me!" Well, nothing happened. Everything went quiet. They all went back to bed. Along about 2 or 3 in the morning, a big black cat jumped in the window and made the loudest blood curdling howl you ever heard. It woke everybody in the house up, and they all came running to the living room where it was. Great granny opened the door and yelled for it to get out, but it wouldn't budge. Just sat there and kept squalling. Finally, great grandaddy kicked it, but it still wouldn't budge. Great granny hit it in the hear repeatedly with a broom and said, "In the name of God Almighty! Get outta this hous you witch!" They said that when she said that, the cat shot out the door like it was on fire. The next day, they all went into town, and folks were talking about the old witch woman from the woods. They said somebody found her laying out on the creek bank that morning, and her face was all swolen and was black and blue like she'd been beaten. They said she kept saying, over and over, that an angel had smote her with his sword. They took her off to the asylum after that, and no one ever saw her again. My granny always said that that old witch had turned herself into a cat and had come into their house to take revenge on her parents. This story was told to us many, many times when we were kids. My old granny lived to be 97 and could tell some haint stories that would curl your toes. I hope you enjoyed my story. I really love listening to your channel. It brings back all kinds of good memories. Thank you.

I'll say no one can tell stories like Jared King I truly enjoy them🤗❤️

My man, as a home hospice nurse in WV, you give me such good stories to listen to out on the road. Keep up the great work!

Absolutely love this...The moral of the story is "Don't Mess with people you"ll get it in the end..."👻💀👻 Karma

I have never had anyone dedicate anything to me before this the very frist time I want too thank you I really do appreciate it so very much

Jared King makes you want to keep listening. Nuff said.

Honestly, I’m a transplant to North Carolina from Iowa. Missus and I been here since 2009, and the longer I’ve lived here, the more the Carolinas feel like home. Stories like these make me appreciate my new home state and this neck of the woods a lot more. Iowa never quite felt like home the way the Carolinas do. Any time I’ve been out west in the Smokies, it’s just felt like home. Hearing these stories makes the love of this land go even deeper, and of course, they serve as a warning to those that are fool enough to disrespect their elders. Cheers!

Thanks so much for the story. I enjoyed so much. My Dad used to tell us kids stories like that. He came from a family of 14 kids. They lived way in the country. They are nearly all gone now and a tornado took the little town. Nothing left of it at all. It's sad how time takes memories and makes memories. Thanks again.

Glad I found this page. Kick back with a glass of white dog, and a cigar, and listen...

Sir there's a deep valuable lesson in that story! .....ATB

I so enjoy listening to these old stories. Grow up listen to my grandmothers tell stories about when they grow up. Love those too . May the Good Lord bless you and keep you. From south west Virginia.

Jarred I want to thank for dedicating that video to me I really appreciate very much I won’t do anything to that man he was a male witch once again tha😅😅😅ñ

Stories is one thing. I was raised in the southern tip of West Virginia. As long as people don't cross the wrong line's,old stories are just old stories. On the other hand, when people go crossing the wrong line's doin thangs they ought not to and messin with thangs they don't understand, if they ain't careful they just might become a character in one of the stories.

Now, that’s a story. I just love old story’s like that. I think that wise old woman pretty much knew the story before those boys even told her what they had done. Keep up the good work Jared 👍🏻👍🏻. Kind of reminds me of old stories my grand mother used to tell.

My mother had a story of her and her first husband and the night her mother in law died. She looked up to see a coffin glide across the wall, other kin folk was sitting out side an a fire ball came down and sat beside them then went back up. Mother was living in a haunted house at the time. Loved hearing those stories over and over.

Am i the only one that almost teared up at the end when the ol black dog came in?

New listener and sub here! I grew up sitting on the porch of the evenings listening to the neighbors and friends telling stories like this. Thank you for bringing something beloved back to me! ❤ you have a great voice for listening btw

Yes!! I loved this... the music, sfx, everything....very immersive! Thanks for sharing

I love the stories about mountain witch folk.

I like answering his question like another good old boy, I ask for a beer and sit down and listen.

I cannot get enough of Appalachian stories thank you so much bro I'll share ya galore

from one Appalachian story teller to another, thank you for the tale

Jared is definitely one of my favorites

Watching now brother I love ur stories they are always awesome 🙏🙏🙏😊😊😊

Hey Jared 👑. I love you voice, great story 🥰🎧. I'm also really glad you enjoyed watching 'Spiritual Child's Play'. It would be greatly appreciated if could share the link on your RU-vid Community page! 👻🎬. Sending you much love and support👍💖.

❤ I did enjoy your tell. I enjoyed hearing your smooth southern comfort voice. I subscribed

Brother Jared that was a good story, I loved it bro keep them coming. Thank you for your time and bless you and your kin .

One of the greatest things about Mountain Lore was their fantastic abilities to tell stories that captivated the imagination of the listener. Don't matter if it's the Appalachian Mtns or the Ozarks Mtns there was always something strange and mysterious out there in them hollers and running through them hills. Being born and raised at the foot of the Alleghany Front I heard my share of grand old tales growing up. The three states that I think probably have the best stories are Kentucky, West Virginia(my state) and Tennessee. Thanks to guys like you Jared for continuing a great old Mountain tradition of story telling and always sharing the mystics of the legends and myths of that old Mountain Magic that could garner anyone attentions. Thanks again old buddy cause that was some time well spent!

Awesome as always brother thank you for sharing 💙😎🤙🏼

Well done! I can imagine my grandmother playing the part of either wise old ones. It gave me the warm and fuzzes with a little kick of shivers. Keep these coming. 👍👍👍👍👍

I absolutely love to escape into these stories!

I think I've heard of the tradition of dumping boiling water and salted animal fat into the footprints of trespassers to burn their feet from my Auntie. She told me if they ignore the markins and the hints she put up that, that usually got their attention LOL. I usually just laugh off that stuff until I heard this story today. Now I'm wondering LOL. I've been told Legends have a hint of Truth just like folktales and old stories hold a hint of Truth. She's quite old and has lived in the mountains of Pennsylvania all her life.

I love hearing old stories and folklore! Thank you very much Sir! ❤

So so grateful I found your channel. Your voice and accent are soothing. Stories true and so well told. Sending you many blessings and abundance. 🙏🏼

Omg I feel Ike an old friend. Thank you so much Jared. ❤❤❤

Merry Christmas pard from an old Colorado boy who knows of his old Appalachian kin. Loving my family, my country and my lord on this fine day. Stay well.

I sure enjoy your stories. Thank you for sharing them with us.

Thank you for the story. It is much appreciated

Great job on the video brother. Keep up the great work on the videos of the storytelling of the Appalachian stories brother. These's storytelling is absolutely amazing 💯. Love the videos brother. Love ya brother. Stay awesome brother.

I could listen to your stories all night. Awesome video thank you 😊

Me and my Uncle Bubba and dr. Henry love your videos we love them everyday we watch them everyday even dr. Henry loves your voice and he loved your videos also dr. Henry loved hear of your folklore videos of the Appalachian Mountains because dr. Henry loved the Appalachian Mountains and also Uncle Bubba

I remember my mama and nanny told me when I was little if I put a broom under my bed it will keep Nightmares From happening

Good story Jared let's hope the boys don't come back. Nice looking mountain house be a nice one too relax in . Thanks for sharing 👍 Hope you have a good weekend 😀

Love your stories. Your voice is so haunting. From the appalachian foothills of NYS

That was awesome

Loved that story and your voice ❤🙌🫶

Thst was an awesome story. Thanks for sharing😊 Blessings and much love

I am now a fan Jared. Well done ol boy well done!

Good video, great story & narration. Thank you.

Thank he Brother God Bless you and yourn.

I love your stories so much that I want to tell my friends the story in Spanish.

Great show keep up the good work be safe my friends God bless all

I just found your channel and I love it! So many of these stories are close to what my own relatives told us kids when we were little living in the hills of Eastern Ky. Keep up the good work and thank you for narrating these wonderful old tales.

Bro. Jared, I reckon this story was the best 'un, yet.

Thanks Jared i really enjoyed your story telling!!!

Awesome channel I love every story God bless you

Great storytelling.

Jared that was an awesome story. Thank you for sharing. It gave me goosebumps....lol Stay safe. Much love to you and the family. STAY AWESOME 💕

Best story teller i have heard...

It's one of my favorites so far.

You know its always gonna be a good one when the title is "The something, the something and the something else" 😂😂😂😂

Love hearing your stories from Ellijay, Georgia.

Once againe thank you very munch

I'M SHARING WITH EVERY ONE.... THESE ARE GREAT

ALWAYS GOOD LISTENING!!!

THANKS SURE ENOUGH ENJOYED

Thank you for sharing this with me today 😊 #freeGrampy

Great story Jared! You are a fantastic story teller!

Just loved this story send me more

Love your content and your narrative! Thank you

I have been waiting Licking My Chops like a Blue Tick Hound waiting for a Pork Chop, Thank You a Million 😋

My Dad was from middle Tennessee born in 38. I've asked him questions about a lot of things you tell. I was told not to ask. He said they'd curl up there tows and fall over dead!!! Luckily for you you know all these stories. I think that they are great. Did the old witch pound nails in the footprints? Love your stuff keep em coming.

Enjoyed your story lots I’m looking forward to hearing many more more ❣️🤠🐾🐾🐕🙏🏻💫

Jared what a fantastic story! ❤️

This is great I love your channel I got the big fireplace going on the big screen and you on the Bluetooth telling me stories Jared. Feels like home I miss my Daddy shout out to you from kentucky Appalachian mountains I'm replying all your videos thank you.

A great story!

I admit it. I am a implant to here in East Tennessee. I come from Phoenix. I like this channel because Im learning the mountain life.

Really enjoyed this story, as always. ❤️ Your the best storyteller. 👍😊 Sharing out 💕

Wonderful story g

I absolutely love Listening to Your stories. My Grandmother and her parents so on and so all lived in Trigg Ky. I have never been there myself. Anyway She would tell us kid’s stories like this all the time also. When we would ask her if they were real she would just shake her head yes. ❤

I liked and subscribed to your channel I enjoy old stories like this now

Reminds me of home.. and my Papaw R.I.P. "Tinnie"

Really enjoyed your story thanks

This guys voice works perfectly for this. Easy to listen to and follow along

Man awesome voice and way of talking, I've been looking deeper into Appalachian stories and history lately....just an idea for a video one day if you feel like it maybe on whittling i know theres a huge culture of it in the US or at least as big as bone carving as a hobby is in NZ and id love to see and learn more or anything you could present

Best story I’ve heard yet

Cool buddy,looks so fan 😎 😍 👌 Have a nice weekend

HI Jared 🙋 These get better and better with each video. Loving these. Creepy woods. 😬😳 Do you make these up or are they family stories. Love scary stories.

Jared you spin.a great yarn as they say!

I enjoy stories like this now I’m going to Subscribe to your channel now

awesome video thanks for sharing👍

I think ghosts seek serenity and the mountains seems the place for me. 😶‍🌫

Good story,

Jared king is the country voice of Vincent price. Me being a hillbilly the words are what I grew up and talk. I heard haunt stories from my maw maw. Still love hearing it.

I love them old stories me and my adopted brother and adopted grandmother always love the sit down and living room at night time raining or snowing she will tell them old story they always going good and I always made me scared I'm always amazed me they still do my brother God bless you

Loved your story

Im from NC state but close to the beach. On my mom's side of the family, she has kin folk that live in the mountains. I've heard tales of those mountain witches

Loved this story😊

While I have relatives from the Deep South on both sides of my family... I myself did not grow up in Appalachia. My first (and probably only) introduction to the people and ways of Appalachia are from Hollywood movies... and most notably... "Next of Kin" and the horror movie "Pumpkinhead" which I think out within about a year of each other. While "Next of Kin" is more of crime/ action movie... it does have one scene that was rather spooky: At the very beginning of the movie.... Det. Truman Gates (Patrick Swayze) responds to an apparent "bar-fight turned murder"... Gates arrives the apartment of the main suspect, Billy Simpson, where Truman & Billy have a chat... and soon learn they are from neighboring counties in Kentucky (Harlan & Perry Cos.)... and Truman claims that he and his brothers used to hunt in Willy's home-county of Harlan up on "Daggot's Ridge". Billy explains that he knows exactly where Truman is talking about: "Hey, there are ghosts up on that ridge. Yeah... one time my dogs took me straight down this hollow (holler??). There weren't no wind or nothing. It just got real cold. Then all at once... them dogs started to howl. Like... like they was talking to the dead. Yeah, man. There are ghosts up on that ridge". Sure... it was just a movie... but that being said... something was really eating at Billy Simpson especially to make him think of that past memory that still haunted him. The next movie "Pumpkinhead" was supernatural horror film, starring actor, Lance Henriksen, who plays "Ed Harley"... a scorned father who's on the warpath and seeking vengeance for the untimely death of his young son at the hands of reckless teenagers. Harley seeks out an (Appalachian??) witch of Black Ridge named 'Haggis' who sends Ed Harley out to "Razorback Holler"... a cemetery that apparently served as an informal resting place (or dumping-ground) for those poor souls who were less-than-loved or who were downright rejected and despised. Or.... as Haggis put it to Ed Harley: "Ever hear of 'Razorback Holler'??... There's an old graveyard way back... deep in them woods. Mountain-folk use to bury kin in there... kin they was ashamed of!!". As if that old crone Haggis couldn't be any scarier... she wasn't one to mince words and made no bones about it. That old woman looked like she was nothing but a bag of bones who couldn't lift herself out of her rocking chair even if her last breath depended on it... but she easily made the Wicked Witch of the West (from the Wizard of Oz) look sweeter than sugar... and scared the living piss out of me. Holy Sh**!!😳 From what I can recall... it is never clearly stated what county, town or state where the events of "Pumkinhead" take place... That being said... the only place(s) that I have ever heard words like "holler, kin, kin-folk" ect. has only been in the Deep South of the US and especially in Appalachia.