Joan of Contention 😷@sarahtaber Greetings from Ireland, where the creepy turnips come from. You're welcome! 👋🏼🎃
Ghost turnip | National Museum of Ireland
In Ireland, at Halloween, we carved turnips to create scary-faced lanterns. The term, Jack o’ Lanterns, takes its name from the folktale about Jack, who was welcome neither in Heaven or Hell and was destined to wander the countryside forever, with just a lantern to light the way.