Origin Of Jack O´Lantern

Origin of Jack O’ Lantern

Jack O' lantern is a myth of old world and origin Irish. The myth tells about a man called Jack O’Lantern. He was so evil that he gets that Satan gets out of the hell, but later the Satan felt sadness for him and he gives an ember of fire of the hell. Jack takes the ember and put in a hollow turnip and he went travel for the world.

Other of the versions is about that jack cheated to the Satan doing up to the apple tree. Later, Jack carved crosses in the trunk to that the Satan couldn't take down.

Jack only lets the Devil go when he agrees not to take his soul ever. After a while Jack dies.

In his life had been too sinful to be able to enter Heaven, however, the Devil had promised not to take his soul, so stayed out of the hell. Now, Jack had nowhere to go. *

He wondered how he could see where he was going, as he had no light at all, then the Devil threw him, as a joke, an ember that would never stopped burning, because it was an embers of fire of the hell, Jack hollowed a turnip, which was your favorite food, then put the embers inside. So he began to wander eternally and without direction.

The first story about Jack O’ lantern was that in the moment to show himself at the light, Jack smiled to the way that did the pumpkins.

The first reference of the jack O’Lantern in United States belongs to Nathaniel Hawthorne, author to the book "Counted Twice Story" where tells about a person with a coat old and with holes, that when exposed to light shone like a Jack O' lantern.

The Americans changed the turnip by a pumpkin. The pumpkins reap approximately in October (time of Halloween), and the children realize that the pumpkins could be the best arm of a joker in the night of Halloween.

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