HOW THE JACK O' LANTERN GOT ITS NAME

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	And the Welcome to a special episode of one thousand one classic short stories and tales.
0:28.0	This one titled How the Jackal Lantern got its name.
0:31.8	Takes us deep into the foggy bogs of England and Ireland
0:35.0	where odd glowing lights could be seen at night hanging over marshes and swamp land.
0:40.0	Sometimes luring travelers off the beaten path to what they thought was the friendly glow of a houselight or lantern.
0:47.5	These mysterious lights were called Will of the Whisps,
0:51.5	with the Whisps being a bundle of sticks lighted at the end, and Will a common name then and now, being the name of the person carrying the light.
1:01.0	He was known as the Will of the Whisps, or Will O the Whisps. the
1:05.0	the will of the wisps or will of the wisp.
1:10.0	It became the fashion to carve faces into large turnips since they didn't have pumpkins in England at that time
1:12.0	and to place candles inside the carved
1:14.4	turnips so they could carry the turnips at night ostensibly to ward off evil spirits.
1:20.3	But maybe just to have some fun comparing carved faces.
1:23.1	Who knows?
1:24.1	There's also a legend that goes back to Druid Times regarding the Samwin festival,
1:29.3	the Night of the Dead, which has morphed into what we celebrate as Halloween today.
1:35.0	During Samwin, villagers would dress as evil spirits and place lit gourds and turnips
1:40.5	around their thatch huts to scare off evil spirits. When the Irish came to
1:45.4	America they brought their legends with them and quickly discovered pumpkins.
1:49.9	Now there was something that could be carved.
1:53.0	But now with pumpkins they needed a better name than Will of the Whisp,
1:57.0	so they turned to an old Irish legend called Stingy Jack.
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