Many years ago, on Halloween night, a man called Stingy Jack, had the misfortune to meet face to face with the devil himself in a tavern. Jack, as usual, had been drinking all night, still could trick the Devil by offering his soul in exchange for one last drink and I paid the drinks. The Devil agreed and became a coin to pay the bartender, but Jack quickly decided to keep the money in your pocket by saving it with a silver cross and thus prevent the release devil and to take back its original form until promised not ask for your soul in ten years. The devil had no choice but to accept.
Ten years later, Jack and the devil were found in a forest to settle your debt. The devil was willing to take with your soul, but Jack thought quickly and said: "As a last request ... Can you get out of that tree that apple please?". The devil thought he had not lost anything, and jumped reached the tree, but before the devil knew it, Jack quickly made a cross on the tree bark. The devil could not come down. Jack forced him once again, to promise that he would never ask her soul again. The devil had no choice but to accept.
Jack died a few years later, but could not enter paradise, having been a drunk and a crook in his lifetime. But when he tried to enter hell, the devil recognized him and sent him back by not break the promise to take his soul. "? Where will I go now?" Asked Jack, and the devil replied, "Go back the way you came." The way back was dark and cold, could not see nada..El Devil threw Jack a lighted coal from hell, so he could be guided in the darkness, and Jack put in a turnip that had emptied so it will not turn off with the wind.
Now Jack wanders aimlessly with his flashlight for eternity.
The Irish used turnips used to manufacture their "Jack's lanterns", but when immigrants came to the United States warned that pumpkins were more plentiful than turnips. Therefore, the custom of carving pumpkins for Halloween and turn them into lanterns by entering a coal or a candle inside emerged. The lantern was not intended to summon evil spirits but keep them away from people and their homes.
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