Halloween is a classic festival in the west, which is of great significance to western countries. In recent years, other countries will also get together on the eve of Halloween on October 31 and Halloween on November 1 to create a happy holiday atmosphere. Halloween is decorated with sadness and ghosts. What's the relationship between Halloween and pumpkins? This article will bring you the origin of Halloween jack-o-lantern and the story of Halloween jack-o-lantern.
October 31 of each year is Halloween Eve. On that night, children will put on makeup clothes and masks and collect quince fruit door to door. The symbol of Halloween is the pumpkin lantern. In addition, there is the story of pumpkin carving as an empty lantern. This is from ancient Ireland. The story is about a man named Jack, who is a drunk and loves pranks.
One day jack tricked the devil into going up the tree, and then carved a cross on the stump to scare the devil so that he didn't dare to come down. Then Jack made three rules with the devil and asked the devil to promise to cast a spell so that Jack would never commit a crime. After Jack died, his soul could neither go to heaven nor Hell, so his dead had to rely on a small candle to guide him wandering between heaven and earth.
In the ancient Irish legend, this small candle was placed in a hollowed out radish, and the ancient radish lamp evolved to today, jack-o-lantern made of pumpkin. It is said that soon after the Irish arrived in the United States, they found that pumpkins were better than turnips in terms of origin and carving, so pumpkins became Halloween pets.
Halloween pumpkin lantern story
It is said that a man named Jack is very stingy, so he can't enter heaven after death, and because he teases the devil, he can't enter hell, so he can only wander around with a lantern until judgment day. So Jack and the pumpkin lantern became the symbol of the cursed wandering soul. In order to scare away these wandering souls on Halloween, people carved terrible faces with turnips, beets or potatoes to represent jack with lanterns. This is the origin of jack-o \ '- lantern.
After the Irish moved to the United States, they began to carve with pumpkins, because pumpkins are more abundant than turnips in the fall of the United States. Now, if people hang pumpkin lanterns in their windows on Halloween night, it shows that people in Halloween costumes can knock on the door and ask for candy.
In the ancient Irish legend, this small candle was placed in a hollowed out radish, called 'Jack Lanterns', and the ancient radish lamp evolved into jack-o-lantern made of pumpkin today.