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🎃 Stingy Jack: The Irish Legend of the Wandering Lantern Before pumpkins, Irish people carved frightening faces into turnips at Halloween. And behind the famous jack-o'-lantern is a story about a man called Stingy Jack. According to one version of the Irish folktale, Jack tricked the Devil but paid a terrible price. When he died, neither Heaven nor Hell would accept him. Condemned to wander the darkness, Jack carried a burning ember inside a hollowed-out turnip to light his way. His wandering lantern became closely associated with Halloween folklore. Irish and Scottish emigrants later helped carry vegetable-lantern traditions across the Atlantic, where pumpkins became the familiar choice. From a hollowed-out turnip to one of Halloween's most famous symbols. #StingyJack #JackOLantern #IrishFolklore #HalloweenHistory #IrishRoots 📸 Irish Roots