The History of the Jack-O-Lantern

by Taylor McClelland What did the jack-o-lantern say to the pumpkin? Cut it out! Halloween is just around the corner which means costumes, haunted houses and jack-o-lanterns. The term “jack-o-lantern” is in origin a term for the visual phenomenon ignis fatuus or foolish fire. It was thought to start back in the 1660’s. Irish immigrants […]

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