What does Jack O Lantern stand for?

Answer 1

Its actually the Latern of Jack.

Its from an old Irish legend of a man called Stingy Jack who tricked the devil into keeping him out of hell. After he dies though Satan remembers him and wont let him into hell and he was too bad to go to heaven. But he is given a live coal. Jack puts the coal into a gourd fruit (turnips pumpkins ECT) to carry about as he wanders the earth.

The tradition of carving jack o laterns was a way of telling Stingy Jack he had best move on. The scary faces were devised later to frighten away other less savory ghosts.

Answer 2

Jack O'Lanterns have been part of Halloween for hundreds of years in both the U.S. and Great Britain, where our familiar 'pumpkin lanterns' are often made from large turnips. The name 'Jack O'Lantern' is not nearly as old as Halloween and originally had nothing to do with the holiday. 'Jack O'Lantern' was a 17th century term for a night watchman, so called because he carried a lantern on his rounds. The term was also applied to 'will-o'-the-wisps,' the strange lights sometimes seen in swamps and graveyards at night, based on the belief that the lights seen were the lanterns carried by spectral Watchmen making their ghostly rounds. With such a spooky history, it's not surprising that Jack O'Lanterns became a fixture, and emblem, of Halloween.

Answer 3

Jack-o -lantern was originally carved in a Swede or turnip to make a lantern, Its associated with a fairly unknown occurance called will-o-the-wisp This was said to be related to the misterious lights seen across the peat bogs of Ireland caused by escaping gas. The term Jack is not a person but old English meaning to workon or carve. Therfore jack-o-lantern was to carve a lantern. Again this comes from Britain and Ireland

Answer 4

Jack o'lantern

1663, a local name for a Will-o-the-wisp mainly attested in East Anglia but also in southwestern England. The extension to carved pumpkins is 1837

Answer 5

Jack o lantern words are: lean, neat, ran, ton, lane, jock, jerk, jack, ant, earn, rack, lack, tack, near.

Answer 6

Jack-o-Lanterns originated from Ireland.

Answer 7

to warn off spirits Homie