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Jack-o-lanterns were once carved out of turnips, beets, or potatoes before the custom reached America and pumpkins were discovered...according to legend, Jack was a miser who could enter neither heaven nor hell, being forced to wander the earth carrying a lantern until Judgment Day!
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids! Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2011
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Jack-o-lanterns, carved from the fall's pumpkin harvest, add their orange color as well as flickering candle light in the growing darkness.
Grove Harris: Halloween and Samhain: Secular and Sacred Celebrations Grove Harris 2010
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Jack-o-lanterns, carved from the fall's pumpkin harvest, add their orange color as well as flickering candle light in the growing darkness.
Grove Harris: Halloween and Samhain: Secular and Sacred Celebrations Grove Harris 2010
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Jack-o-lanterns were once carved out of turnips, beets, or potatoes before the custom reached America and pumpkins were discovered...according to legend, Jack was a miser who could enter neither heaven nor hell, being forced to wander the earth carrying a lantern until Judgment Day!
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids! Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2011
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A female comedian once roasted him saying “Jack-o-lanterns last longer in the fall than a Jason Alexander TV show”
Show Killers: Lindsay Price and other suspects | EW.com 2009
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Jack-o-lanterns, carved from the fall's pumpkin harvest, add their orange color as well as flickering candle light in the growing darkness.
Grove Harris: Halloween and Samhain: Secular and Sacred Celebrations Grove Harris 2010
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Yes, it's that time of year where spooks and goblins, witches and Jack-o-lanterns are ever-present.
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Yes, it's that time of year where spooks and goblins, witches and Jack-o-lanterns are ever-present.
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Yes, it's that time of year where spooks and goblins, witches and Jack-o-lanterns are ever-present.
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Costumes, "trick or treat" and Jack-o-lanterns all got started more than two thousand years ago at an Irish bonfire.
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