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Jack O’Lantern Facts!

Jack O’Lanterns are an Irish tradition and were originally carved from turnips.

They were meant to ward off malevolent spirits, and keep them away from the home.

The name jack-o’-lantern was originally another name for will-o’-the-wisp, the atmospheric ghost lights that appear over bogs, swamps, and marshes. 

The lights are a natural chemical reaction, and figure largely in English folklore.

They’re tied to the Irish legend of STINGY JACK, a deceitful drunkard who tricked the Devil out of claiming his soul. After his death, both heaven and hell refused him entry. The devil gave him an ember of hellfire, which Jack carries in a turnip lantern as his soul wanders for all eternity. Travelers must beware of encountering his spirit–and the telltale glow of the hellfire–at night.

Irish immigrants carried the tradition to the U.S., where pumpkins, already a symbol of the harvest season, were used instead. (And were also easier to carve.) 

(the turnips were freakier tbh)

Can we stop using "still lives with their parents" or "unemployed" or "doesn't have a drivers license" or "didn't graduate high school" as an insult or evidence that someone is a bad person? Struggling with independence or meeting milestones is not a moral failing.

Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico, December 27, 1929

when I mask my disability and autism it physically hurts my brain/head and causes me to have headaches is that normal????

shoutout to offputting autistic people

Whatever the person behind SparkNotes' twitter is being paid it's not enough pt. you can't pay me to dig up which part this is

autism disphoria, where you're having such good fun at an event but when you see picture of yourself you were just :| the whole damn fucking time (as illustrated below)

*day after october, the weary pumpkin gives a great sigh before collapsing physcially and emotionally from the sheer psychological strain*

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