According to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Jack-o’-the-Lantern used to be a man named Stingy Jack or Jack the Smith, Drunk Jack, Flakey Jack, and other names. Jack tricks and traps the ...

The term jack-o’-lantern was first applied to people, not pumpkins. As far back as 1663, the term meant a man with a lantern or a night watchman. Just a decade or so later, it began to be used ...

According to Irish folklore, a man called Jack O’Lantern was sentenced to roam the earth for eternity. A ghostly figure of the night, O’Lantern walks with a burning coal inside of a carved ...

families can walk a magical trail that will transport them to Jack O’ Lantern World. Thousands of hand-carved jack-o’-lanterns created by more than 50 artists make up immersive and whimsical fall ...

It's also home to the Great Jack 'O Lantern Blaze, one of the largest pumpkin sculpture displays in the country— and one of the Lower Hudson Valley's best Halloween attractions. Tickets for the ...

The article made no mention of Halloween, however, and the story’s description of a man’s inquisitive reaction to the jack-o’-lantern pumpkin indicates that it was not yet a common phenomenon.