The Story Behind the Jack-O’-Lantern
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3 min readOct 19, 2020
Carving up a pumpkin is almost a prerequisite to having a proper Halloween, but when those pumpkins are all done and fit with a light, why are they called jack o’ lanterns, and who is Jack?
Halloween originated in Ireland hundreds of years ago and came from a Celtic festival for the dead called “Samhain.” Turnips and potatoes were used as the first jack-o’-lanterns, but that changed when Irish…
