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Bookmark or Share- When People Carved Turnips Instead of Pumpkins for HalloweenFor protection from Stingy Jack and other apparitions, people in the British Isles began carving faces into pieces of produce—particularly turnips, but in some cases potatoes, radishes and beets....
- How Jack O’Lanterns Originated in Irish Myth - HISTORYIrish immigrants brought the tradition to America, home of the pumpkin, and it became an integral part of Halloween festivities. People have been making jack-o’-lanterns at Halloween for...
- What’s the Origin of the Jack-O’-Lantern? - Mental FlossThese ghost lights—variously called jack-o’-lanterns, hinkypunks, hobby lanterns, corpse candles, fairy lights, will-o’-the-wisps, and fool’s fire—are created when gases from decomposing...
- The history of American jack-o’-lanterns - National GeographicThe twisted transatlantic tale of American jack-o’-lanterns. Celtic rituals, tricks of nature, and deals with the devil have all played a part in creating this iconic symbol of Halloween.
- The Jaw-Dropping History of the Jack-O’-Lantern: A Tale of Turnips ...Also known as will-o’-the-wisps, fairy lights, fool’s fire, and — yes — jack-o’-lanterns, ignis fatuus refers to the incredibly eerie (but entirely natural) flickering of lights that occurs over peat bogs and marshlands. It’s caused by the combustion of gases that are released from decomposing organic matter.
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