If you were wondering, for each one of the most iconic representation of Halloween, most common answer would be a carved pumpkin, or, as is so often defined lantern, Jack o '.
The folklore behind traces its origins to a legend Jack Irish (or Ghost Story) by a greedy, but smart farmer named Jack. Jack was able to climb a tree makeup devil, and after this, the devil is sealed in place bearing a cross on the plant. The devil is in that light andput a hex on Jack - was sentenced to eternal purgatory on earth. While wandering the earth, he brings a fire that cast the devil would never burn - how was the fires of hell. Jack hollowed out a turnip and put the heat inside - Walking for a place to rest his soul. But he kept the name "Jack the Lantern", which was then subjected to "Jack O 'Lantern."
The story behind carving pumpkins is the first major famine, when many Irish immigratedUnited States. Vegetable Carving lanterns from turnips or rutabagas started - and not acquire the name "Jack O 'Lantern", until the early half of the 19th Century. The practice of carving pumpkins with a time of harvest and not to be associated with Halloween until the mid refers to the end of the 19th Century.
The Lantern Jack O 'in his early years he was always depicted with a face - and would face many different forms, from comic to the monstrous. Late in the 20th CenturyArtists began using precision instruments to more artistic flavor that Jack seemed to cartoon characters, humans or different symbols.
Enjoy Jack digs this fall!
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