Streeter Seidell explained the history of the pumpkin made into a Halloween Jack-O-Lantern yesterday in 7 Burning Halloween Questions: Answered! Once it became a tradition, the carving of the ...

In one of the earliest instances of the jack-o’-lantern as Halloween decor, the mayor’s wife had several pumpkins—lit from within and carved with faces—placed around the party, ending Jack ...

The custom of carving a face into a pumpkin for ... Bannatyne says. It’s no surprise then that each aspect of the journey to the jack-o’-lantern as we know it — the legend of Stingy Jack ...

This classic smiling face is a popular choice, but you could also design your jack-o-lantern to feature a surprised, scared, or creepy expression. From catastrophic climate change to alien ...

Hoberdy's Lanterns had carved-out faces in turnips and the stump of a candle within. Pumpkins eh? here's proper scary, a traditional Irish Jack-O-Lantern made from a turnip. It dates from 1903 and ...

The tradition of carving faces into pumpkins for Halloween originates with the old European legend of "Stingy Jack" or "Jack of the Lantern". Before pumpkins, the Irish and Scottish carved faces ...

Sure, you may think jack-o'-lanterns have always been carved out ... the devil took pity on him and gave him a piece of coal for his turnip lantern to light his way as he roamed forever, which ...

In the passage below, Ott explores the origins of the carved jack-o’-lantern, especially as it ... and carving in it “the outline of three faces, with their eyes, and noses, and teeth.” ...