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Halloween pumpkins

n Irish myth about a stingy person called Jack who ended up as a wandering soul started the craze of carving vegetables. At first, demonic faces were carved into turnips to frighten away Jack, but when Irish immigrants moved into the USA they began carving pumpkins, and so jack-o’-lanterns

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