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Jack o’ Lanterns: The Folklore Behind the Carved Pumpkin

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The carved pumpkin on the porch descends from an Irish legend about Stingy Jack and from lanterns cut into turnips, not pumpkins. Here is the folklore and how pumpkins took over.

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