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  Are you getting ready for Halloween? As you know, Jack o'lantern s are an essential part of the festival . Yes, we mean those awesome carved pumpkins with scary faces and a candle inside that people use to decorate their windows, porches and gardens. In our previous post, we discussed one of the legends about the origin of the Jack o'lantern. Click here for a video with one of the many versions of the legend.   If you want to make your first Jack o'lantern, take a look at these videos:   Both of them contain easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on the use of templates to carve fantastic Jack o'lanterns. We are sure you will find them extremely useful. Happy Halloween!

   October is the month in the middle of Autumn, when the equinox takes place. However, if there is something October is really famous for that is Halloween ! THE HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN    Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en ) is a festival which takes place on October 31st. It started as the Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced /ˈsa:ʊin/), but it was influenced by the Roman festival of Pomona (goddess of fruit and trees). Both festivities were related to the end of the harvest season. Later, the Christian church moved All Saint's Day to November 1st to convince people to stop celebrating Samhain , but it was not a successful move. In the 19th century, Irish and Scottish immigrants carried the custom to the USA, where it evolved a gain.   The Celts believed that on the night of Samhain , the dead walked on earth again. Some of those spirits were evil and they scared people and played nasty tricks on them. So the Celts started to dress up as ghost