Did you know carved turnips were the original scary lanterns in Ireland ... here's proper scary, a traditional Irish Jack-O-Lantern made from a turnip. It dates from 1903 and was carved at Baile ...

Yes, we're talking about carving the mighty turnip, the OG of Old Hallow's Eve. Sure, you may think jack-o'-lanterns have always been carved out of those plump, orange gourds. But, you'd be wrong.

Jack got a hollowed-out turnip and placed the bright ember inside, creating the first-ever jack-o’-lantern. Legend has it, he still uses the turnip lantern to light his way as he wanders Earth ...

The National Museum of Ireland—Country Life, near the town of Castlebar, displays a plaster cast of an early 1900s jack-o’-lantern, known as a “ghost turnip.” There’s no more classic ...

The term jack-o ... out turnip and has supposedly been roaming Earth with it ever since. In Ireland, the ghost lights seen in ...

Slowly, the idea of the natural phenomenon of Jack-o’-the-Lantern became associated with the turnip lantern. Sometime around the 1600s, folk stories began circulating detailing the origin of ...

Jack placed it in a hollowed-out turnip, and since that day Jack has roamed the ... in them to ward off evil spirits and keep Jack away. These were the original jack-o’-lanterns. Other Halloween ...

The term jack-o ... original form. Jack eventually let the devil loose, but made him promise that he wouldn’t seek revenge on Jack, and wouldn’t claim his soul when he died. A terrifying ...