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!

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” ...

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 ...

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.

“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.