He Done It With a Bucket: An Ozark Folktale That Teaches Lessons on Truth and Honesty
In the quiet folds of the Ozark Mountains, where the mist hangs low over the cornfields and every sound echoes across hollows and ridges, folks once told a story that every farmhand knew by heart, the story of how a man got caught “doing it with a bucket.” The tale begins in a small mountain village, one of those close-knit