@historybytheslice: The jack-o’-lantern started as a turnip. In Ireland and Scotland, people hollowed turnips, swedes and mangelwurzels and carved faces into them — surviving examples are held in Irish museum collections. They weren’t decorative: guisers carried them door to door and the faces were meant to ward something off. The name traces to Stingy Jack, a folk figure refused by both heaven and hell, wandering with an ember in a hollowed turnip. Pumpkins are a North American substitution. Follow for the history nobody teaches. 🎃 #jackolantern #halloween #ireland #folklore #History Scholarly source Nicholas Rogers, Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night (Oxford University Press, 2002).

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