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People have been making jack-o’-lanterns at Halloween for centuries. One version of the practice may have originated from an Irish legend—which first appeared in print in the 19th...
Etymology. An assortment of carved pumpkins. The term jack-o'-lantern was originally used to describe the visual phenomenon ignis fatuus (lit., "foolish fire") known as a will-o'-the-wisp in English folklore. [3] Used especially in East England, its earliest known use dates to the 1660s. [4]
Originally, jack-o’-lantern or “Jack-of-the-Lantern” referred to mysterious lights that floated over the bogs and a stingy man who once made a deal with the Devil. You may have heard of bog lights before, though they go by many different names: Will-o’-the-wisps, corpse candles, or fox-fire, to name a few.
Who is Jack in Jack-O’-Lantern? How did these pumpkin decorations get their name and why do we carve them during Halloween. Read on for the spooky history of this Halloween symbol.
An angry devil. And… a pumpkin? Though jack-o’-lanterns are now an American cultural icon of Halloween, their symbolism is quite recent — and the story of how they came to be is a complicated...
But the history of the jack-o’-lantern is a long and ancient one. First born in Celtic bogs as people started trying to explain flashes of eerie light they noticed in the darkness, ignis fatuus led to the legend of Stingy Jack.
October 24, 2024. Where did the Halloween tradition of carving faces into pumpkins and lighting them up come from? This custom stems from the old European legend of "Stingy Jack" or "Jack of the Lantern". In the tale, Jack was a man so devious, he was banned from both Heaven and Hell.
The tradition of carving Jack-O'-Lanterns has deep roots in Irish folklore and the term itself takes its name from the legend of Stingy Jack. But long before pumpkins became a sign of...
The jack-o’-lantern is an art form that has multiple possible origins (re: Celtic head veneration, an Irish folktale about an asshole, anonymous English night watchmen), multiple symbolic meanings (re: it represents the lantern of a notorious trickster, or the fires of Samhain, or Christian souls stuck in purgatory), and multiple functional ...
The term jack-o ’ -lantern was first applied to people, not pumpkins. As far back as 1663, the term meant a man with a lantern or a night watchman. Just a decade or so later, it began to be...