Halloween: The History of North America's Most Morbid Holiday
30 Morbid Minutes
30 Morbid Minutes
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🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:32.5 | teeth production Halloween North America's spookiest holiday is more than just a commercial costume fest. |
| 0:41.9 | We dive into the origins today on 30 Morbid Minutes. This is the podcast where we explore topics of a morbid, macab, downright, grisly nature, sometimes spooky like today. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm Elise Willems. |
| 1:07.9 | And I'm Jessica Vasami. |
| 1:09.2 | There's this old, old Irish folktale about a man named Stingy Jack, which already kind of a red flag. |
| 1:16.0 | Jack had a bit of a bad reputation, known for being a miserable, conniving sort of man, playing tricks on his fellow pub patrons. |
| 1:24.1 | Sounds like the devil. The devil himself, Satan, heard of Jack's exploits and decided to meet Jack for himself. |
| 1:31.9 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:32.6 | Greatness begets greatness, I guess. |
| 1:35.3 | One night, drunk and wandering through the countryside, Jack came upon a body in the middle of a path, which upon inspection, he realized was the devil. |
| 1:45.4 | Fearing the worst that his end might be near, Jack stalled the inevitable by inviting Satan |
| 1:51.8 | for a drink at the local pub. |
| 1:53.9 | And surprise, surprise, a guy with the moniker, Stingy Jack didn't have any money on his |
| 1:58.8 | person to actually pay for these drinks that he invited Satan to go have. |
| 2:03.5 | So he asked Satan to spring for the tab. |
| 2:06.6 | More specifically, he suggested to the devil that he deceived the bartender by turning himself into a silver dollar, which Jack would pay the barkeep with. |
| 2:16.8 | Once the exchange was done, Satan could simply morph back into the Prince of Darkness. |
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