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The Legend of Jack-o'-lantern
This is the legend, but tonight the streets are full of costumes bat, ghost, witch or pumpkin, skeleton walk a few houses and some for your pumpkin will speak, following them everywhere. Just kidding, but since I do not give me candy!L ' custom of Halloween is connected to the legend of Jack, a lazy but shrewd farmer, always inclined to annoy people. It is said that dared to challenge the devil, who, terrified, he was forced to take refuge in a tree. In order to prevent the devil descended, the wily Jack carved a cross on the trunk. Only after a long spat the two reached a compromise: in exchange for freedom, Lucifer would save eternal damnation due to Jack. During its existence, the factor, sure that he would not go to hell, he committed many sins, when he died, did not go to heaven and I can not go to Hell was forced to remain on earth, where you took a pumpkin and carved a face, Inserit a candle, made a lantern. From that moment began to wander without rest in search of a place of rest. Halloween would therefore be the day when Jack goes hunting for a refuge. The inhabitants of each country are required to hang a lantern outside the door to indicate the unhappy soul that their house is no place for other versions lui.Secondo jack had a turnip and a pumpkin with them, was then folk tradition to pass down the tradition of pumpkin.Another legend says that Jack was always a person who drank one day at the bar met the devil at some point turned into a coin, then he took it and died shortly after. He went to heaven, but was fired, went to hell and was fired for taking money and then took a stone, made him the eyes and mouth and took him inside the burning coals, and so went around to only illuminate the road. The turnip was later changed and instead put the zucca.Un 'other version relates the story of the first coin that Jack would put the money (knowing that it was the devil) in the purse along with a silver cross, preventing revert. The tradition says that Jack, rejected by Heaven and Hell presented himself, was "cordially" driven by the devil and reminding the pact more than happy to let him wander as tormented soul. Observation that it was cold and dark, the devil threw a firebrand (from the eternal hell) and Jack placed it inside a turnip he had with him.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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