Photo credit: Rannpháirtí anaithnid, English Wikipedia. Gourds grow wild in wet climates in South America. This withered turnip jack-o-lantern at the Museum of Country Life in Ireland dates from the early 1900s.
ANCIENT TURNIP JACK O LANTERN HOW TO
We figured out how to farm them over here eventually of course, but under the natural climate they dont get very big nor give much of a yield. In Ireland and Scotland, people began to make their own versions of Jack’s lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away. Turnips simply didnt grow as easily in the Americas. Jack was made to wander the Earth forever with his Jack-O-Lantern, never able to rest, except on Halloween night.
The turnip had been carved into a face with a grin full of broken teeth that mocked Jack.
Do not cut the shell of the turnip quite through but cut as thin as possible, so that as much light and as little wind may get through as possible… You must make a hole in the bottom of the lantern to receive the candle. The introduction of pumpkin jack-o-lanterns was a colonial invention. The female Demon who’d had the cross burned into her chest threw Jack a large turnip and a candle. Another common amusement at this season of the year is to make a turnip lantern, and in connection with this, I would warn my young folks that as a first step to do this successfully, they should procure a turnip righteously and honestly… first, procure as large a turnip as possible, and then proceed with your pocket knife to scrape out all the substance of the turnip, leaving only the rind or skin… Having scraped all the substance out of your turnip, and made a hole in the lid to let out the smoke, proceed to cut on the outside a man’s face, as you see has been done by the little fellow in our picture.
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