JACK O' LANTERN
Like Halloween, the tradition of carving pumpkins comes from the Celts. According to legend, a miserly man named Jack , who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree. As the tale goes, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness and he was doomed to wander the earth. The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer. The Irish used turnips as their "Jack's Lanterns" originally. But when the immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America became a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with a candle.