Pumpkin carving was inspired by a multi-variation of Irish folklore about an Irish drinker, Stingy Jack, who deceived the Devil ... of the Lantern,’ shortened to “Jack O'Lantern." ...

According to folklore, the Jack O'Lantern is named after a blacksmith Stingy Jack who tricked the devil into paying for his drinks ... "In Ireland, people cut out heads and faces of turnips and hid ...

The devil did so, but Jack skipped ... several pumpkins—lit from within and carved with faces—placed around the party, ending Jack O’Lantern’s days of wandering, and beginning his yearly ...

painters created a jack-o’-lantern face on both sides of the tank, he said. Community is in large part the focus of Smilin’ Jack. A part of the draw to the oversized pumpkin is that during one ...

Sure, you can just put some spooky eyes and teeth on your jack-o’-lantern and call it a day ... I would have to sculpt the moon out of the face of the pumpkin using wood etching tools.

Originally, jack-o-lanterns started as a tradition of carving faces ... jack-o-lantern comes from an Irish folktale of a man named Stingy Jack. The story goes that Jack invited the Devil to ...

When the devil obliged ... Hoberdy's Lanterns had carved-out faces in turnips and the stump of a candle within. Pumpkins eh? here's proper scary, a traditional Irish Jack-O-Lantern made from ...

In the passage below, Ott explores the origins of the carved jack-o’-lantern, especially as it ... and carving in it “the outline of three faces, with their eyes, and noses, and teeth.” ...

As payback, the Devil ... O'Lantern. Halloween is now celebrated all over the world Inspired by Jack's story, there came a popular tradition in Ireland of carving vegetables with scary faces ...

Sure, you may think jack-o'-lanterns have always ... However, as National Geographic added, the devil took pity on him and gave him a piece of coal for his turnip lantern to light his way as ...

I tend to choose strange and unconventional things to carve into my pumpkins, but every year I make sure to buy an extra perfectly rotund pumpkin to carve the classic Jack-o-lantern into.