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Before you carve your pumpkin this Halloween, you must read this article. Learn why the Irish brought the custom of creating jack-o-lanterns to North America. Most of all, learn about Stingy Jack before it is too late!

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Carve your jack-o-lantern carefully this Halloween. Make it grotesque and frightening. Make it so frightening that you even scare yourself with it. Follow this advice or risk a visit from Stingy Jack. Don"t shrug off this warning. If he visits, he may never leave.

Some say the story of Stingy Jack is just an old Irish folk tale that explains how the Irish brought the custom of carving jack-o-lanterns at Halloween to North America. Others say take heed and for good reason.

Stingy Jack was a tight-fisted, mean spirited, and evil man. So brazen was he, that he dared play tricks on the devil. And he succeeded. He managed to trick the devil into promising not to take his soul to hell after he died. However, when Stingy Jack died, he learned that his stingy and mean spirited ways would deny him entrance to heaven. In need of a place to spend eternity, he tried to enter hell. The devil couldnt take him. Actually, the devil wouldnt take him. He couldnt stand the thought of being upstaged in his own bailiwick by the one who had outwitted him. Therefore, when Stingy Jack tried to enter hell, the devil sent him away. As Stingy Jack turned to leave, the devil, still furious at having been bested by him, threw a hot coal at him. Undaunted, Stingy Jack picked it up and put it into a half eaten turnip, thus fashioning a lantern to light his way back to earth. Ever since then, the evil "Jack of the Lantern" has roamed the earth...

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