Pumpkins are now one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween, but they weren’t used as jack-o’-lanterns until the mid-19th century. How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a ...

Don’t let your jack-o-lantern go bad before Halloween With the scary season comes a classic fall activity that all ages enjoy: carving pumpkins. Unfortunately, most jack-o-lanterns only last ...

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 a turnip. It dates from 1903 and ...

This Halloween, get creative with your jack-o’-lantern and get inspired by these pumpkin-carving templates. Once you’ve chosen a scary stencil and cast your eye over these pumpkin carving ...

One change I appreciate, however, is the shift from pumpkin jack-o’-lanterns to ... we used to carve turnips to create “scary” lanterns. “Candles were placed inside the turnips and ...

Can’t get enough jack-o’-lanterns? Travel back in time to our ... little yellow dude chasing you around a labyrinth was really scary.