Jack-o’-lanterns have become one of the most iconic symbols of Halloween. Their origin story isn’t exactly well documented, so tracing their roots involves some folklore, some agriculture, and literary influence.
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Pumpkin. Carving is one of my very, very favorite halloween activity elsewhere ray I love
Like I love it man, I I'm talking about better behind the scenes forever. Halloween season, halloween halloween, I'm excited about it and jack o lanterns have become one of the most. I
like symbols of halloween, but their origin story is not super well documented because it's not as though someone just invented them, or even a culture and minimum or if they were part of a specific event.
Two men became popular, although they are associated mostly with one culture, but will talk about all of that so tracing their roots. Am I
I had told you a while back while others were him amiss, I'm trying to figure out the shape of it, because it does involve some folk lore, some agriculture
are there. Some literary influence that all come together to sort of make the jack o lantern as important.
Visually to halloween season, as it is today. So we're going to talk about all of that now. So the history of jack, o lanterns, starts with an irish folk story about a man called stingy jack. There was a poem to tell the tale of stingy jack that came out in eighteen. Fifty one written by hercules Ellis. This was included in a book called the rhyme book, which color
did a number of folk tales and told them in verse the story of stingy jack as the lot older though- and there are many variations this eighteen, fifty one poem opens with a rather unsavory depiction of jack and his unkind ways, and it calls him by his more formal name of John rather than jack quote. Greater trial was never known on this earth than stingy john from his door. The poor were turned.
On relieved and cursed an spurned, but as this version is stingy, jack story place out while
is travelling hold one night jack encounters a poor stranger who claims that they are near death and they ask for help and surprisingly, jack offers aid
he picks the stranger up any puts him on his horse and brings him to his home where he feeds this man and gives him a place to sleep.
but then the next morning, jack awakens to find that the poor traveller that he helped was actually an angel who said
to him in the poem quote, though, com
the church, by all around mercy in your heart, I've found ask three gifts, I'll give them you and
my blessing, add there too, after contemplate
This offer jack asks for the following quote. I wish whoever takes my chair may be fastened firmly there. He to chair and share to ground till my leave to go be found next, I pray whatever fools metal with. My box of tools may be fastened to the wall till to let them go. I call thirdly, sir. I would implore that who breaks my sick, a moron,
be fixed fast to the tree till I choose to set him free, and so the angel sighing grants these
he was a but this,
heels jack's fate because it
on asking for Heaven, when offered anything by the angel and instead making wishes that are intended to trap people in his control. He has doomed himself
who never enter the pearly gates, but jack doesn't
really realize that anything. Bad is gonna happen to him at this point, because his life goes pretty well he's healthy, his flocks,
orange, am he gets really rich, but
actually like everyone. He grows old, am his end of life meares and because
has doomed himself to Hell. With these wishes, the devil son
one of his servants up from hell to fetch jack and when that servant comes
jack's door, jack, invites a man and offered him a seat and that seal
The devil servant to it. Because of that first wish jack then be
the servant. This is all a pretty violent story. I will say, and then makes him in
I feel that if he promises to never come back, he will be set free and the servant of the devil agrees to this and, of course the devil has other servants,
and sends another one, and that servant is aware of what happened to the first. This emissary is adamant that jack has to report to hell and jack says that he'll go, but he has to fix his shoes first or he won't be able to make the journey. So he asked the devil. Servant number two to hand him and all from his tool box that, of course, traps that servant once again jack beats.
I'll servant and offers him freedom for the promised that he will not return. There is another. The third visit the jack gets is from the devil himself, who is tired of his minions being tricked and according to the poem quotes
jack. My lord I'm ready quite
dead lame is old jack. You must go. Get me a good stout stick or take me on your back,
so the devil, goosey jack's nearby sycamore tree to get a walking stick from it and is then fastened tight to the tree.
jack flails him for a long time, he
else him so much that the devil's roars are heard as far away as germany, italy and spain. According to this poem, the devil
is finally free by jack after he promises that he will never take jack to Hell. But that means that when jack
eyes. His soul has nowhere to go so. This poem concludes at length, jack died and when his soul was from his body riven, it could not get through hell's wide gate nor yet through those of Heaven, by his
free choice. He lost the last and satan did not fail his oath to keep and jack to sweep from Hell's gates with his flail
then, since jack is unfit for Heaven and hell won't give him room. His ghost is forced to walk the earth until the day of doom, a lantern in his hand
bears the way by night to show and from its flame he got the name of jack. O lantern now
so there is a more common version of this folk tale that predates the poem in that version. Jack invites the devil to drink with him at a pub, but he does not have the money to pay to cover the bill. He makes a deal with the devil, offering his soul for money. The devil agrees and turned himself into a coin. So the plan is jack will use the coin to pay for the drinks and then the devil will return to his normal shape and leave. The jack does not pay his bill with the devil coin. Instead, he walks out on the bill and puts
the coin in his pocket, along with the cross, that keeps the devil from assuming his true form and eventually jack, decides to let the devil free from this trap for
reason that is usually determined by the tellers choosing like guilt or fear, and he
the deal with satan at this moment that, in exchange for freedom, the devil came out bother jack for ten years. It seems like a foolish deal to make, but what
when the devil sees jack again after that allotted period has passed, he gets tricked again this time round.
says he will go willingly after he has an apple from a tree. That is not too far off from where this conversation is taking place and he asked the devil.
You will climb up into the tree to fetch an especially good apple. The devil obliges clearly
Devil is kind of a ding dong. Emmy store was weaker, whose interests gives strict over and over and while
Well, Satan is up this tree jack carved a cross on the trunk and that prevents the devil from getting down once again. Jack frees the devil. This time makes a deal that his soul cannot be taken to hell when he dies, the devil agrees and his freed, and both of them just go about their business until jack does finally die of old age. At that point, he's refused entry into Heaven and sent by ST peter to hell, but the devil can't take him either per their previous arrangement. So instead he gives jack a small flame from the fires of Hell. Jack puts the flame into a carved out turnip to use as a lamp
and because his soul can't go to Heaven or hell. He just wanderers the earth until judgement day with the sole turnip light. Yes, sometimes as described as a flame, sometimes as a burning charcoal from the fires of Hell.
Oh or a spark. Its comes up a little bit differently, but no
the details, the story of stingy, jack in his lantern is really
connected to halloween initially, but with a way to explain the idea of floating lights that people saw at night. The same thing you may have
earned called will o the wisp or some other thing. So, though,
floating lights. Associated with bogs are said to lower travellers off course and to their do, they are described as being perpetually out of reach. So as a person approaches, they seem too
four way and there is a scientific
Explanation for this phenomenon. There are a couple actually so is believed that marsh gas, which is high in methane, sometimes produces lay
as the flora around it decomposes and creates a chemical reactions, that's a process called Kevin essence. The other
explain or is bio luminescence, which happens when a chemical reaction produces light in living organisms and is not a D composition thing, but before that
Science was understood. The various myths and lore were used to explain those bog lights and other cultures have completely different explanations for this phenomenon, but this irish folk tale is the one that that gives rise to the jack o lantern. Falsely reminds me of the makeup light, which we just talk. Yes, I so. How did this tale of the doomed, untethered soul of stingy jack, lead to kids carrying plastic pumpkins around during trick or treat time we're going to talk about the history of the pumpkin before we get to that, and we will do that after a sponsor break.
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pumpkin our native to north and central america. In the book, pumpkin,
The curious history of an american icon author Cindy, ought makes the case
said the pumpkin may have been the first plan that was transition
from wild to cultivated by people living in the americas. Making them
keystone of the transition to an agricultural versus foraging society, the oldest cultivated pump
seeds. We know of came from the war hocker highlands in mexico and there somewhere, but
eight thousand and ten thousand years old- that, according to ah makes them
two thousand years older than any known, corn or being seeds, but those early pumpkins were nothing like the behemoth sue confined today at a supermarket. They were small. Their range was pretty
to a modern regulation, baseball or softball in range, the reasons that pumpkins became so popular among early american cultures, as one that's debated, they would not have been the very fleshy sweet version that we have today, but a lot more bitter, with a thinner wall of flesh until they were selectively bread for having a bigger size and sweeter flavour. But they were consistent and reliable
as a crop. One of the reasons that sprouting pumpkin seeds is a popular classroom activity today is because it is crucially easy to do pumpkins grow quickly.
would have added variety to the diet of early agrarian groups yeah, if you're like me,
and you dump all your stuff in your compost, her without a whole lot of thought. Sometimes you get surprise gift. Pub
The third chairs so easy to grow. They just want to sprout by the twelve
hundreds indigenous peoples on the eastern seaboard of north amerika had a really established practice of growing pumpkins and they had been standard crops even earlier than that in other areas, the continent. So
well before europeans made their way across the atlantic. The pumpkin was pretty plentiful. In
act, varieties and specific timelines of them are really difficult to trace because those things
shifting year to year, as sweeter versions were sought out for eating and other members of the corbett, AC family were cultivated for other uses, for example, gourds that could be hollowed out and used as vessels
and these were grown alongside corn and beans in what is known today is the three sisters method of planting. It's also called companion. Planting in this arrangement, the core,
serves as a traveler s for the beans to grow up the beans state.
As the corn and add nitrogen to the soil, which help support the pumpkins emma corn and the pump
so we're there close relatives cause is not always a pumpkin protect the soil and roots of the other plants, while suppressing we'd growth
kids are a good source of vitamin a with potassium iron and vitamin c also included in their nutritional profiles, so their benefits make it pretty clear why they became an important part of early north american agriculture. The word pumpkin doesn't come from the languages of these indigenous peoples, though field pumpkins, like a big orange ones that are so closely associated with,
autumn and its holidays, those were grouped with a lot of other varieties of crops under the name squash that word according to the library of congress, as from the word, a scooter squash, which is a narragansett word, referring to something that's eaten raw. The word pumpkin has roots in the greek word, pepper, which means large melon. I feel like. I said that as though it were french, when this would have adopted into french. That word was transitioned to pump and then that
pompey and in great britain, before evolving, into pumpkin cell. When europeans came to north america, they eventually adopted the pumpkin into their own diet as a staple food. For all
all of the reasons it had already been popular with indigenous peoples, in addition to the
I fear we ve already mentioned,
There is the bonus that pumpkins can be used just about in their entirety. Right you can roast and eat the seeds. The blossoms can be eaten, the skins can be. You can also treat the skins for other uses like weaving, so clearly it's a great crop. So now that the pumpkins place in north american agriculture is established, we're going to jump back to the story of stingy jack, because jack's spirit wandering the world unable to enter Heaven or hell carried a turnip lantern became known as jack of the lantern or jack o' lantern, but he wasn't the only one called that
im, the term jack o' lantern, was also used to describe nightwatchman who carried lanterns as they patrolled their areas. The use of the name, jack, o lanterns interchangeably with will of the wisp or other names to describe that eerie and
catch. A light we talked about was well established by the late eighteenth century. I
not very easy to find numerous newspaper articles that reference them by the jackal enter name one.
appearing in the bath journal in october. Seventeen. Seventy nine is about pirate paul Jones in it, states quote: Paul jones resemble
the jack o lantern to mislead our mariners and terrify our coasts. Here
no sooner seem than lost another printed in February seventeen. Ninety two,
who, in the freeman journal or the north american intelligencer included a criticism of the french nobility, which read in part quote.
unfortunately, in their search of light, they turn their backs upon this
the luminary reason and follow certain jack o lantern that led them astray
courting Lee, they have lost themselves in the public opinion, one article that appeared in the portland gazette in september of seventeen. Ninety eight begins as though it's an eta malady of the word Jacobin, suggesting that the final syllable was really lynn.
Which was an evolution from land as an abbreviation of lantern and that jacobin and jack o lantern are the same word. This is actually a criticism of the Jacobin, comparing them to a thing that seems appealing but is in fact not. The article includes the list of characteristics of the jack o lantern and concludes with quote to all appearances. It is an angel of white, but in reality it is an angel of darkness. In short
It is the very devil all over, and so my good reader is the Jacobin. So the idea of a jack o lantern was well established before that. Eighteen, fifty one poem that we mention in the first segment of the show
Some versions of the stingy jack story also account for the idea that other people started carving their own turnips and potatoes to have scary faces, and they put
these creatures in their windows to scare off the wandering jack or any other creature. There
sexually becomes a little bit confusing because it appears that there in telling the story there has been a co mingling of two ideas, so they explain her of
bog lights known as ignis fatuus or fools fire that we ve been talking about em. They cannot accept
When celebration saw in which means end of summer was a festival that marked the transition to autumn
this was also the celtic new year and was associated not just with the changing of the seasons, but also with death and rebirth. The end of harvest in the preparation for winter has come to be associated with a lot of concepts, and some of them are on.
Spooky and scary side, although we know
We have a lot of reliable information about the actual historical practices, its belief that the chaotic festival which marked the delineation between the light and dark parts of the year, also marked a time when the living and the dead might have contact. You may have
a time when the world of the supernatural and of deities was believed to be accessible or at least visible to mortal human.
So, based on what we
No, there are some pretty easy to recognise similarities between historical silent activities and modern halloween, including dressing up in costume,
So, while today's costume party might be about finding the funniest or most impressive ensemble, the participants in so in were more likely selecting disguises to confuse evil spirits.
Bonfires are also believed to have been a common practice as a way to protect the gathered celebrates and fortune telling may have been part of the festivities, because this was a time of looking to the year ahead. After the romans defeated the kelson the first century, caltech paganism, was subsumed into christian ideology through a careful
the right of the narrative of the meanings of various practices kind of along the lines of
but then you always done has actually been a christian being all along. This was a spy,
Plead the case when all saints day was declared in the year six or nine, and then it was
Emily moved a couple centuries later to coincide,
it was saw him, and this is where the day
before all saints day, known as all hollows eve started to develop the idea
that we would come to recognise as the holiday of hollow wean, coming up we'll talk about how this braiding, together of folk, lore and holidays, led to the jack o lantern being a symbol of the season? We'll do that right after we hear from some sponsors that keep the show going this year is the sixtieth anniversary of a pivotal moment in you
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So. All of this talk of stingy, jack of pumpkin crops and sorrow
brings us back to jack o lanterns,
are historians who believe the vegetables may have been carved to look like heads as part of the caltech celebration and the health of the pre roman
ere. I did have a lot of mythology about the importance of the head. Amazed. Carvings may have represented the heads of vanquished enemies, but that is just a theory, but a completely different explanation is
people used route vegetable lanterns foresaw win because
They were going around their villages searching for libations. That was another part of the celebration.
Just needed lights, it wasn't necessarily symbolic and that simple need-
I have evolved into the lanterns carved to have faces on them.
Whether that was the case or not. We do know that carving, turnips and potatoes with faces and putting a candle inside had become a common practice in ireland by the eighteenth century and it does
some sense that the story that explained the strange marsh lights and the tradition
so someone had become intertwined because both of those stories are tied together geographically. So by the time, irish,
grants made their way to north America, starting in the early eighteenth century. They brought this vegetable carving tradition, which had already been part of the autumn celebrations with them, and then they discovered that the pumpkins that were plentiful in their new home, where a lot easier to carve than the other vegetables and were more plentiful as well before long pumpkins carved into lanterns with faces, were com
in the autumn and not just in irish homes, one of the cultural moments that helped make a jackal lanterns popular in the. U s did not actually feature any jacko lanterns that was the eighteen. Twenty people
cases of the legend of sleepy hollow by washington irving. So if you think
We have that story and spoiler alert. If you somehow managed you never read it or see him adaptation of it. You,
they recall. The headless horseman throwing a jack o lantern attic abad cream near the end of the book, but irving never wrote that it was a jack o lantern, just a pumpkin.
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to dodge the horrible missile, but too late it encountered his cranium
the tremendous crash. He was tumbled headlong into the dust and gunpowder
the black steed and the goblin writer, passed by like a whirlwind, and then
At the end of the next paragraph quote on the bank of a broad part of the brook where the water ran, deepen black was found, the hat of the unfortunate ec abad and close behind it, a shattered pumpkin,
just a pumpkin, not a jackal amman bud.
illustrations of that seem have almost always included a pumpkin with a face.
Carved into it. Starting varies.
only after was published, and that helps
meant the idea that jack o lantern had been an integral part of white europe,
in culture in north amerika from just about the very beginning,
jack. O lantern was explicitly mentioned. Fifteen years later in the text of Nathaniel Hawthorne's, the great carbuncle, the carbuncle is a gem that a band of adventurers are discussing what to do with one of the characters plans to conceal it under his clothes that another replies hiding under thy cloak, say: ass, thou why it will gleam through the holes and make they look like a jack o lantern its unclear whether this reference means the carved pumpkin or the glimmering lights over. A marsh hawthorne also describes a pumpkin jack o lantern, but doesn't use that phrase than his eighteen. Fifty two story: feathered
the character feather top is a scarecrow with a carved pumpkin for a head and he comes to life yeah. I favour the side that it in the carbuncle. He means a carved: pumpkin jack, o lantern, but that's up for debate
from there the jack o lantern started, making appearances, threw out poetry stories and are in the united states can find it would block prince starting in the mid nineteenth century
It was frequently seen on magazine covers during halloween season by the nineteen twenties by the nineteen thirties.
This trick or treating became part of the standard. Hollowing fine jack, o lantern were considered an essential part of the festive it
he's so much so that an article in Honolulu advertiser from October thirty, first, nineteen thirty one appeared with the headline while it.
Children, use papayas for pumpkins to scare on halloween this article
It's a because Honolulu did not have pumpkins, they still had to have Jacko lanterns, and so they use papayas
to write up include several stories of kids using them to scare people, including one where a kid hid in a hibiscus bush with his papaya jack, o lantern and scared passers. By with it early children traders, he is jack, o lantern still light their way as they walked the neighbourhood streets for their candy halls. This meant that the lantern was just that it was a light source, not a candy receptacle. Often these are made of materials like paper machine, instead of actual pumpkins, to make them easier to carry these transitioned away from candles as the light to simple batteries with bulbs as safety concerns arose, and by that nineteen fifties, plastic battery powered pumpkin lantern started to appear
over time, the plastic jack o lantern transitioned from guiding light to candy receptacle in nineteen. Fifty two, the quad city times of davenport iowa, suggested a series of party ideas that one might stage for halloween, all of which included one or more jack o lanterns as decor one was an apple and nut party for teenagers feel like
pitch that today you might get some shrugs and another was a jack o lantern supper that included sandwiches made with bread cut to look like jack lanterns
a look through almost any towns.
Papers around hollowing season from the mid twentieth century on shows lie.
Lots of similar articles, although I never found a single one that mentioned stingy,
back or wording away, evil spirits. It was all just in fun today, of course, you can buy plastic, jack, lanterns and all kinds of colours and realistic. Looking fake pumpkins for carving or already carved real pumpkins remain an important part of. U s: agriculture and twenty twenty, an estimated one point: five billion pounds of pumpkins were grown
the? U S, Illinois has long been the country's top producer with pennsylvania, new york, indiana Michigan, california, texas, ohio, wisconsin in virginia as the other big pumpkin states, and if you want to carve a real pumpkin but you're, not that confident about it, you can also by all kinds of special pumpkin carving tools and kids to get that job done, and now the jack o lantern is everywhere
an eye but happy little girl. I have two pieces of listener, mail and they're, both brief, which is why I'm including to end the bay feature apples, so that seems still in our autumnal zone
This is from our listener. Tabitha in it is titled honey,
guess hunting, tabitha rights,
Oh, I just wanted to share that. I was listening to your podcast about the bramley apple tree being infected by honey fungus right as I was out, huh
thing for honey mushrooms because they are edible
I am a certified wild mushroom forger. Am I teach people how to safely idee and eat the honey fungus and how it does in fact trees? Your podcast is my favorite. Thank you for all that. You both do. Thank you for
because I had not seen him any of my research on the tree gap can eat those, I will say, please do not go eat the mushrooms from near it.
three. Based on this audio description. You need someone like tabitha to id you who has done all of the training and research yeah. Any mushroom identification requires like several different, not just oh. This is growing near the tree and is honey colored. That is not enough. There are some honey colored mushrooms that grow here: trees,
that can kill you don't do that. Don't I'm terrified of of wild mushrooms
yeah yeah, unless they have been gathered by someone like that is at a farmer's market
no, it's sort of family. I m forgers on Tik tok, whose work I really enjoy, but I also we grew up
out of things in a garden growing up, but my mother was very clear on the direction that we were not to eat anything.
We found in the wild because we would immediately die, which is an overly conservative. Look at things the growing
while, but like all of the foragers that I watch are super like you have to do these multiple things. You cannot just look at like the color of the mushroom, or whatever
I kind of I'm with your mom. That's a better safe than sorry when it comes to kids, who may be don't always exhibit ape less judgment shore, I know I did
My other email comes from our listener. Becky, who writes dear hollywood, Tracy your latest parliament's foods episode on the mcintosh bramley apples gave me a craving for apple pie. Of course, that calls for a trip to the orchard
as I wanted to make both pie and apple salad and remembering the episode I put the mcintosh apples down and bought cartloads. So far,
you delicious apple pies. The best part of a visit
or local orchard is apple. Cider slashes, with caramel syrup incredible that sounds amazing
here, is a photo of our rescue pup rocky wearing a hoodie. Yes, I heard the elderly and radcliffe episode and clothing on animals. Rocky is not a fan
hockey is so precious, so precious haven't back
and she says she met both of us in the before times that the lime showing the annapolis, which hopefully will do again sometime soon it like you so cute. I want to kiss her face seven thousand times leg. He just as one of those faces. Thank you for writing us both tabitha em back
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