Halloween is always synonymous with distinctive carved pumpkin. Pumpkin named Jack-o'-lanterns has become a worldwide icon.
Halloween comes from the Celtic festival of Samhain belonged to the ancient (region of Ireland) and the story of Jack-o'-lanterns have roots scary legends. Jack is the name of a farmer who likes to get drunk. Once, in a drunken state he intends to deceive demons but it herself deceived. As a result, he vacillated uncertain when the dead among the gates of heaven and hell.
Jack had no choice but to roam the realm of darkness, around the area of purgatory. Jack makes a lantern from a turnip, obtained from coal fire that cast a demon from hell. Jack uses this turnip lantern to guide lost souls.
Thus, the story of the Celts underlying confidence that ultimately makes a pumpkin, fill it with candles, and placed outside the home every 31 October. Its function is to assist the souls lost in the night back home. Halloween (or Samhain) is the time when a lot of wandering spirits.
Radish carved creepy also to scare the spirits in order to leave immediately. The Celts also dressed in spooky costumes so that evil spirits can not distinguish between humans and ghosts.
When famine hit Ireland in 1846, many people who fled to America. Halloween traditions still they bring to this new continent. Because radish hard to come by in the United States, the pumpkin is used as a substitute. Who would have thought, even so the pumpkin is very popular nowadays.
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