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[everyonesonthespectrum]

Today’s Autistic character of the day is:

Stingy Jack from Pumpkin Jack (Video game)

Requested by @sxilor-1010

#headcanon #stingy jack #jack #stingy jack pumpkin jack #jack pumpkin jack #pumpkin jack #autism #autistic #actually autistic #autistic characters #autistic character of the day

[sixminutestoriesblog]

pumpkins

Halloween just wouldn't be Halloween without large pumpkins grimacing and grinning at us from steps and railings, glowing from within with a ghastly light as the night falls thick around the neighborhood. The pumpkin jack o' lantern has become almost synonymous with Halloween, from the grinning pumpkin head worn by Ichabod Crane's Headless Horseman to Pillsbury's ready to bake tubes of colored pumpkin faced cookie dough. The pumpkin isn't just for jack o' lanterns either! The second the weather gets the first sharp bite of autumn to it out comes the pumpkin spice everything! Pumpkin coffee, pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie - its not even just for food. Pumpkin candles and tiny decorative pumpkins everywhere! If there is one overwhelming symbol of autumn, at least in most of the Western world, surely it must be the pumpkin. In fact, the pumpkin is so overwhelmingly 'autumn' themed that both Halloween and US Thanksgiving claim it as a vital part of the party.

So would it surprise you to learn that the pumpkin we recognize these days is a North American plant and its autumnal rein of power is fairly new?

Would it surprise you to learn that the jack o' lantern once looked very different than it does today?

(not if you spend time in certain circles of tumblr but we're going to dip in anyway)

Once upon a time, so the Irish story goes, there was a very lazy man called Stingy Jack. If he had only been lazy, this story would be shorter but he was also desperately clever. There are quite a few versions of the story but the basic of it follows a familiar route. Man has done something that either puts him in a spot of trouble with his neighbors or else is just feeling so lazy that he can't even fulfill one of his wants. Either way, the Devil sees an opportunity and shows up, offering to help Jack with his problem. Jack, like most folklore heroes, agrees. The Devil then turns himself into a silver coin, or climbs an apple tree or something of the kind, fulfilling his part of the bargain. Jack, however, has the power of God and anime crosses on his side and proceeds to use them to trap the Devil in his shapeshifted form or up a tree. Jack keeps him there until the Devil agrees to never bother Jack again. The Devil agrees, life goes on for Jack as per normal and one day he dies. He's been a shifty, stingy Jack so Heaven won't take him but now, pride still bruised or promise still in place, neither will Hell. All Jack gets from behind the closed fiery gates is a single thrown coal and the order to 'get lost'. And so, rejected by the afterlife yet still very much dead, Jack must wander the Earth forever, the single glowing coal the only light to guide him where he's put it in a carved vegetable to help light his way. Traditionally, people put out jack o' lanterns each Halloween or Samhain or All Saints/Soul's Day to both ward off evil spirits and to help guide the friendly dead, like wandering Jack, home.

Thing was, this story is older than the European discovery of the New World. Jack and his will o' wisp lantern, and the subsequent 'lanterns' left out by others later on, was a carved turnip.

Yep. That would scare me away too if I saw it left outside someone's house. Anyway, the carved turnip, or other useful tuber, stayed the go-to vegetable when it came to carved jack o' lanterns lighting up the late October nights until the mid 1800s when the Irish Famine drove many to immigrate to the United States. Traditions are adaptable and who would bother with a turnip when there were great, round, bright and easily hollowed out pumpkins right there? In no time at all, the idea of pumpkin jack o' lanterns had spread across the US and bam! A new king of autumnal vegetables was born.

Except the pumpkin is a fruit. A berry in fact.

Yeah, I had to wiki that one too.

The jack o' lantern isn't the only superstition around pumpkins.

In Appalachian tradition, if a cow eats pumpkin seeds it will stop giving milk. Pumpkin seeds are also used to get rid of tape worms in a process that involves fasting, milk and castor oil.

Pumpkins should always be planted on Good Friday for the best results.

Pumpkins are seen as signs of fertility, prosperity and abundance.

and finally, eating a pumpkin stalk will make you foolish (because eating it in the first place wasn't already proof)

#folklore #superstition #cottagecore #halloween #pumpkin #jack o lantern #pumpkin spice #happy halloween #stingy jack

[sxilor-1010]

I might as well share this here given I shared it to my twitter & tiktok, but hi I also make edits and I made one of a very underrated game I fell in love with called Pumpkin Jack. Y'all shouls go play it— 🧡🎃⚔️

#sxilor speaks #sxilor edits #pumpkin jack #pumpkin jack game #stingy jack

[olympusvee]

Happy Halloween! 🎃

This year with fanart of the super fun game Pumpkin Jack that I replay every single year during october! :D

#vee draws #fanart #halloween #halloween art #pumpkin #pumpkin jack #stingy jack

[ghostcatcherire]

The Legend of Stingy Jack: The Haunting Legend Behind the Halloween Jack-o'-Lantern

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(Image Source: A traditional Irish turnip Jack-o’-lantern from the early 20th century. Photographed at the Museum of Country Life, Ireland. © Rannṗáirtí Anaiṫnid 2009) Halloween, a time of ghosts, ghouls, and goblins, is a time when the veil between this world and the next is at its weakest and spirits roam the earth.  One legend looms large in the heart of Halloween itself – the macabre tale of…

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#devil #faustian bargain #folklore #halloween #halloween traditions #ireland #irish folklore #jack-o&039;-lantern #lantern #pumpkin #pumpkin carving #samhain #satan #stingy jack #turnip #turnip carving

[foodandfolklore]

Stingy Jack; The Story of Jack-o-Lanterns

With Halloween nearing, I thought it'd be fitting to talk about Jack-o-Lanterns. A time honored tradition for this odd fusion holiday of Christian, Pagan, and Pop culture, is to carve a lantern from a pumpkin. Traditionally a face, but people can get very creative and I've seen animals, cartoon characters, and machines.

Fun fact about Jack-o-Lanterns, they were not always carved in Pumpkins. When Halloween or All Hallows Eve was still being celebrated in Europe, they would use a root vegetable. Normally a Turnip; I'm guessing because they were large and round. But when Europeans came to North America, they discovered the pumpkin. And that was WAY easier to carve up. First, Pumpkins were already mostly hollow, you just needed to scoop the seeds out. Second, they were softer so cutting into them was easier. Third, their orange flesh and exterior accentuated the fire glow. Pumpkins were in, baby!

But why do we carve Jack-o-lanterns at all? As Halloween falls on the start of Samhain, many people think it has something to do with the dead. Many cultures believe lighting candles, lanterns, or lights help the dead find their way. Perhaps the lantern is a place the dead can take pause for rest. Or maybe the Lantern serves to protect you malicious spirits. There are lots of reasons why people choose to make a Jack-o-Lantern for the season. But there is an old story from Ireland behind it.

Long ago in a small village in Ireland lived a drunkard named Stingy Jack. He wasn’t held in very high regard by the townsfolk. One evening, Satan overheard stories of the devious deeds of Jack and decided he must have this fellow’s soul. Jack may have been stingy, but he was quite clever. When Satan came to collect his soul, he successfully made the case that the least Satan could do was allow him to have a final drink at his favorite pub. After which, Stingy Jack left Satan on the hook for the tab. Jack suggested he turn himself into a coin to pay the bill and they would be off on their journey to the underworld. Satan was fooled when Jack took the coin and put it into his pocket alongside a crucifix, thereby trapping Satan in his pocket. The devil begged and pleaded, and only upon agreeing to leave Jack alone for ten years was he released.

Exactly ten years later, Satan found Jack stumbling home from the pub. With a heavy sigh, Jack looked at the devil knowing full well that he intended to drag him to hell. Jack made the request of Satan to climb a nearby apple tree to get him a final snack to eat before the journey southbound. Satan, apparently still not as clever as Jack, climbed the apple tree. While Satan was climbing the tree, Jack carved a cross into the trunk, thereby trapping Satan up in the tree. The devil begged and pleaded, and only upon agreeing to never take Jack’s soul to hell was he released.

Many years later, when Stingy Jack took his last breath and died, St. Peter refused him entrance into heaven for all his evil deeds. Satan refused him entrance into hell due to their contract. In one final parting gift, Satan gave Jack an ember ablaze with hellfire. Alas, Jack was stuck roaming the earth with only a carved turnip glowing with hellfire to light his way. When Stingy Jack ceased to be, Jack of the Lantern began. On Halloween night, keep an eye out for a restless wandering soul every time you see a Jack O’ Lantern, for it may just be the hellfire glow from Jack’s lantern. 

#Halloween #all hallows eve #Stingy Jack #jack o lantern #Pumpkin #Turnip #Food and Folklore #October #Spooky Season #Folktales #Samhain #Fairytale #Fable #Klick Witch #Kitchen Witch #Satan #St. Peter

[goldleader0]

🎃Happy All Hallows' Eve!🎃

#not lego #all hallows eve #Halloween #jack o lantern #Stingy jack #pumpkin #pumpkin carving #happy halloween

[nickysfacts]

I’ve just now realized I have never seen anybody use a jack o’lantern as an lantern, instead they are just used as organic candle holders!🎃

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#history #happy halloween #jack o’lantern #ireland #stingy jack #scotland #halloween #pumpkin #irish immigrants #united states #halloween lover #spooky #turnip #irish history #pumkin carving #halloween girl #irish american #potato #jack’s lantern #usa #halloween history #dublin #jack o’the lantern #spooky season #american history #nickys facts

[thenightling]

A theory about Merv

I have a theory about Mervyn Pumpkinhead.  I’d say it’s a headcanon but it’s more a theory. 

  According to the tale of Stingy Jack (the origin of the jack-o-Lantern) we carve Jack-o-lanterns to drive away old Jack and other wandering ghosts.  The Jack-o-lantern is a protection ward against supernatural threats from entering your home. One superstition has it that if you blow out the Jack-o-lantern before midnight on Halloween you invite evil spirits to enter your home for the entire year.  It’s only safe to blow it out after midnight. Another superstition is if you let the Jack-o-lantern burn out naturally you invite good luck for the entire year and have warded your home against evil for the full year.  It is especially good luck if it manages to burn until after sunrise. In The House with a clock in its walls Pumpkin Jack-o-lanterns are used as protection wards all year long. Jack-o-lanterns, at their heart, are symbols of protection.  Now, because we see Mervyn as a Mervyn Turniphead in The Sandman story The Tempest, it’s very clear that his Jack-o-lantern head isn’t just for the aesthetic. In his Turnip form, that is an old school Irish Jack-o-lantern.  That is a pre-Halloween decoration (use for any time of year) Protection symbol against supernatural threats.

So even in present day when Mervyn has a modern Pumpkin Jack-o-lantern head, Mervyn is a walking, talking, protection ward against supernatural threats.  He’s not just the groundskeeper or janitor.  He’s a line of defense.   This does explain why Mervyn stands up to The Furies (The Kindly Ones) the way he does.

And this is also one of the many reasons I, myself, love Jack-o-lanterns.  They aren’t just symbols of Halloween. They are kind of comforting in their protective light. 

#Mervyn #Merv #Merv Pumpkinhead #Mervyn Pumpkinhead #The Sandman #Sandman #Neil Gaiman

[frimleyblogger]

Souling And Stingy Jack

The traditions of #souling and #pumpkin lanterns #Stingy Jack

“Souling”, a sort of religious insurance policy, was a feature of All Saints’ and Souls’ Days, described by John Mirk in a sermon dating to around 1380 as the time when “good men and women would this day buy bread and deal it for the souls that they loved, hoping with each loaf to get a soul out of purgatory”. Soon, though, the poor took the initiative, going around towns, knocking on doors and…

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#All Souls’ Day #All-Hallows’ Eve #Halloween #Jack O’Lantern #pumpkin lanterns #souling #Stingy Jack #Two Gentlemen of Verona

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Jack-o'-lanterns have such a grab bag of lore, i love it

Fire, of course, has a long history of offering protection from evil forces. During the Celtic festival of Samhain (from which many Halloween traditions originate), the veil between worlds was considered thin, and ritual bonfires reminded the spooks to stay on their side of the lane.

Many a lantern has protected the lonely traveler on a dark moonless night. But lanterns can be dangerous too—especially the supernatural ones. in certain folklore 'jack-o'-lantern' was another name for will-o'-the-wisps, atmospheric ghost lights (or as legend has it, lost souls) that appear above bogs and lure unwise wanderers into sinkholes.

Then there's the 18th cent Irish folktale of Stingy Jack, a mischievous fellow who tricked the Devil twice, exacting a promise that hell would never claim his soul. So Jack goes on his cheerful way, and dies (as humans are prone to do), and ends up at the pearly gates. Now Heaven, it turns out, doesn't want a damn thing to do with him. So Jack jaunts on down and goes knocking on the gates of hell—only to have Satan slam the door in his face! How this leads to Stingy Jack being doomed to wander the earth carrying a hollowed out rutabaga lit by an ember of the flames of hell, I couldn't tell you. But that is how the story goes.

Whether the legend of Stingy Jack inspired or fueled or was created-by the gourd-carving practice, by the 19th cent, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh alike were annually carving jack-o'-lanterns out of turnips & rutabaga & beets & potatoes, and lighting them up to ward off Jack and other wandering spirits. Immigrants carried the tradition to North America, where pumpkins were indigenous and much easier to carve.

And so the modern Jack-o'-Lantern was born!

Not that gourd lanterns were anything new. Metalwork was expensive, after all, and gourds worked as-well-as and better-than-most crops when it came to carving a poor farmer's lantern.

As for carving human faces into vegetables, that supposedly goes back thousands of years in certain Celtic cultures. It may even have evolved from head veneration, or been used to represent the severed skulls of enemies defeated in battle. Or maybe not! Like many human traditions, jack-o'-lanterns evolved over multiple eras and cultures and regions, in some ways we can trace and others we can only guess at. But at the end of the day, it makes a damn good story, and a spooky way to celebrate—which is as good a reason as any (and a better reason than most!) to keep a tradition going.

In conclusion: happy spooky season, and remind me to tell yall about plastered human skulls one of these days 🎃

srcs 1, 2, 3

#halloween #halloween history #jack o lantern

[evermore-grimoire]

The Evermore Grimoire: World Mythology

Jack O'Lanterns are carved pumpkins, turnips or other root vegetable lanterns commonly associated with Halloween. It’s name comes from the reported phenomenon of strange lights flickering over peat bogs, called ‘Will-o'-the-wisps’ or ‘Jack-o'-lanterns.’ The name is also tied to the Irish legend of ‘Stingy Jack,’ a drunkard who bargains with Satan and is doomed to roam the Earth with only a hollowed out turnip to light his way. It is also believed that the custom of making Jack O'Lanterns at Halloween time began in Ireland. In the 19th century, turnips or mangel wurzels were hollowed out to act as lanterns and often carved with grotesque faces and used on Halloween in parts of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands. In these Gaelic-speaking regions, Halloween was also the festival of Samhain and was seen as a time when supernatural beings, and the souls of the dead, walked the earth. By those who made them, the lanterns were said to represent either spirits or supernatural beings, or were used to ward off evil spirits. They were also used frighten people, and sometimes they were set on windowsills to keep harmful spirits out of one's home.

artwork by Indira Muzbulakova

#MythEdit #MythologyEdit #World Mythology #FantasyEdit #Jack O'Lanterns #Pumpkins #Halloween Monsters #Halloween #My Edit

[the-cosmos-withinus]

Shadow Puppets AU - Rainy Day

This is actually in commemoration of a finished thread, but it's much smaller than the poster I made for the completion of the Deadwardian Era thread, so I didn't want to make a poster. This thread was actually supposed to be a short Halloween inspired RP that Bragi and I started back in October, it took us a couple of months to finish this 'short' thread.

In this thread, it's been a few years since Philip and Astrophel met, Father Josiah is dead, General William has taken Philip as his apprentice and the Wittebane brothers have their own house now. To celebrate Gravesfield's good harvest, Caleb took Philip to the pumpkin patch to buy a couple as a treat. They got a big one to eat, but Astrophel insisted on getting a smaller one to carve a jack 'o' Lantern, too, much to the brothers' confusion.

Caleb figured out that Astrophel meant something similar to a Will 'o' Whisp that the brothers had heard about from a fellow traveler before they arrived in Gravesfield, and recalled the story of Stingy Jack they'd heard from him to his brother and his friend as he carved the pumpkin, which Philip wanted to look like Astrophel. When the work was done, they went back into the house to roast the pumpkin seeds, and heard a small crash outside.

Local trouble maker, Hugh Fayerweather had smashed their Jack 'o' Lantern. Philip and Astrophel were greatly upset and Caleb didn't know how to comfort them, but left to go after Hugh to make him pay for their pumpkin and tell the new town preacher what he'd done. Meanwhile, the two friends didn't feel like that was quite punishment enough and made a pact to get back at Hugh one way or another.

#shadow puppets au #philip wittebane #toh collector #Gravesfield Era #We actually never specified that it was raining here I just felt like it needed rain

[dailydemonspotlight]

Day 11 - Pyro Jack / Jack-o'-lantern

Race: Fairy

Alignment: Neutral

April 3rd, 2024

On the streets at night in the cold, deep darkness, a candle flickers. You know this means only one thing. Hallow's eve is right around the corner. Introducing the second of the Jack Bros, Pyro Jack!

In Ireland since the 1700's, it's been a tradition to put up Jack-o'-lanterns as the month errs towards Halloween, inspired by the legend of a man known as 'Stingy Jack.' According to the story, there was a tricky drunk in an Irish town with the name Jack, a man who would sell a soul for six silver coins or break into a bank in order to fuel his ever-growing reliance on booze. He was hated, by even the heavens itself, yet soon he found himself at death's door. That is when the Devil came to him, to see if he was truly as terrible as the stories painted him out to be.

One night, Jack wandered the cobblestone roads before coming to a dreadful sight- a body, laying smack-dab in the center of the road. However, it had a face not of death, but rather, devilish envy, as the Devil himself made his presence known. Jack had one last request, one typical of a drunkard- to get one last drink in before the end. The Devil obliged, likely finding it foolish, and took him to a pub, where they both drank the night away. Jack, then, asked the Devil to cover his tab. His idea? To turn the beast into a silver coin. Impressed by his trickiness, the Devil did as asked... only to be slipped into a pocket with a crucifix, held captive by slippery Jack, who had now fucked with the devil himself. Baffled and trapped, the two made a deal- Jack would be given 10 more years on the earth.

Unsurprisingly, when the time came, Jack yet again tricked the Devil, and was granted eternal recompense, as the Devil was forced to make him never go to hell. Ever. When Jack's time came, however, his life of deceit and fraud only gave him a ticket out of Heaven's pearly gates, and the Devil wasn't one to give up on a deal either, so he was eventually forced back to earth, forever to roam as a lost spirit held alive by the flickering light of a lantern within a turnip. Ever since, Jack-o'-lanterns have been a popular tradition of Halloween, originally starting as incredibly freaky looking rutabagas before eventually changing to the far more iconic autumn fruit of a pumpkin.

The idea behind the lighting of the Jack-o'-lanterns is scarcely known, but it's mostly thought to be a tradition to help guide Stringy Jack along the roads and to help his soul find peace in his eternal roaming of the plains of earth.

Pyro Jack, unsurprisingly, is based on Jack-o'-lanterns, though mostly in his pumpkin head. The lantern he carries is likely an allusion to Stringy Jack, lighting the way for his soul to wander aimlessly in the megaten world. Being the second Jack Brother, Pyro Jack is also his counterpart, representing the flame to Jack Frost's ice. Pyro Jack is also based on the phenomenon of Will-o'-wisps, flickering lights that appear in the dead of night with no real explanation, typically around swampland and forests.

He typically appears in every SMT game, mostly as an early game demon, as well as a component to his big brother, Black Frost. Overall, Pyro Jack has a fun and festive Halloween design, some really fun folklore, and, while simple, works as a perfectly effective little spooky spirit in the smt series.

#shin megami tensei #smt #megaten #persona #daily #jack o' lantern #hi! im doing a lot better #i got a steroid inhaler and my health is looking up!! #pyro jack is a personal favorite of mine #if only because he's a component of my favorite demon of all time #also the ghost house music in new soup worked perfectly to set the mood for writing this one #so its a bit more flowery than most lmao #Halloween #is my favorite holiday for a reason

[carlosvalderrama]

We opened a Ko-Fi! And to celebrate it while we are in the Season of the Witch, we prepared a new digital printable miniature: Jack o'lantern! But this is a reinterpretation I made of the old iconic character, taking the original legend in which the lantern is a turnip instead of a pumpkin. and of course, lots of liberties were taken 😁

When Stingy Jack tricked the Devil himself, he couldn’t know what kind of curse would shed on him! His black heart turned into a rooted nest infested with worms. His burning head, now a turnip which would hold the inextinguishable embers of Hell. From that day, he would walk the Earth as a monstrosity; a grotesque silhouette that recalls a man holding an impious lamplight even when he lost his humanity forever. That’s why he’s called JACK’O LANTERN!

This is a sculpted model that captures all the creepiness and gnarliness only a mutated undead turnip can have! Go check our Ko-Fi to get the digital file of Jack’o Lantern and benefit from our 66,6% Special Discount from today until November 5th. And we also have some mobile wallpapers if you want to take the Halloween spirit wherever you go!

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#digital art #concept art #creature #digital sculpting #creature design #illustration #miniature #figurine #jack o lantern #halloween #happy halloween #stingy jack #turnip #mutant #ko fi shop

[klaunee]

Neep the turniphead demon, an old demon of hell from the days when carved turnips were used instead of pumpkins to ward off Stingy Jack.

#halloween #spooky #character design #original character