And they break down into several distinct categories: The best I can tell, the modern jack-o'-lantern pumpkin has only been ...

The Jack-O-Lantern story comes from Irish folklore, and the original was a far cry from the cute friendly Halloween decoration we know today!

The term jack-o ’ -lantern was first applied to people, not pumpkins. As far back as 1663, the term meant a man with a ...

Americans may have merged the Irish jack-o’-lantern with legends about supernatural pumpkins, but another source lay closer to home. In North America, “jack-o’-lantern” ...

Irish legend says Stingy Jack asked the devil to have a drink with him, ... when you carve your Jack O’Lantern you’ll understand the spooky reason we carve Jack O’Lanterns.

Sometime around the 1600s, folk stories began circulating detailing the origin of Jack-o’-the-Lantern. According to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Jack-o’-the-Lantern used to be a man ...

“Jack-o’-lanterns with the “O” apostrophe is clearly Irish,” Kerrigan said. “But they emerged originally as a mythical Irish story about a guy named Jack, ...

Irish legend says Stingy Jack asked the devil to have a drink with him, ... when you carve your Jack O’Lantern you’ll understand the spooky reason we carve Jack O’Lanterns.