![]() Jack carved out one of his turnips (which were his favorite food), put the ember inside it, and began endlessly wandering the Earth for a resting place. He asked how he would see where to go, as he had no light, and Satan mockingly tossed him an ember from the flames of Hades, that would never burn out. Of course, Jack's life had been too sinful for him to go to heaven however, Satan had promised not to take his soul, and so he was barred from hell as well. Many years later, the thief died, as all living things do. Photo credit: Rannphirt anaithnid, English Wikipedia. "In both folktales, Jack lets Satan go only after he agrees to never take his soul. This withered turnip jack-o'-lantern at the Museum of Country Life in Ireland dates from the early 1900s. Jack had closed the wallet tight, and the cross stripped the Devil of his powers and so he was trapped." He turned himself into a silver coin and jumped into Jack's wallet, only to find himself next to a cross Jack had also picked up in the village. Jack told Satan to turn into a coin with which he would pay for the stolen goods (Satan could take on any shape he wanted) later, when the coin (Satan) disappeared, the Christian villagers would fight over who had stolen it. However, the thief stalled his death by tempting Satan with a chance to bedevil the church-going villagers chasing him. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Another version of the story says that Jack was getting chased by some villagers from whom he had stolen, when he met Satan, who claimed it was time for him to die. One story says that Jack tricked Satan into climbing an apple tree, and once he was up there, Jack quickly placed crosses around the trunk or carved a cross into the bark, so that Satan couldn't get down." "An old Irish folk tale from the mid-19th Century tells of Stingy Jack, a lazy yet shrewd blacksmith who uses a cross to trap Satan. Jack o' the Lantern, it was, in its most-original incarnations. ![]()
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