He had nothing to do with the pumpkin at all. Americans may have merged the Irish jack-o’-lantern with legends about supernatural pumpkins, but another source lay closer to home. In North ...

Many of the immigrants responsible for the popularity of the jack-o’-lantern in the United Statesand its namewere Irish, what with Samhain’s Celtic origins. “Stingy Jack is a later Irish ...

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 Halloween ...