The pumpkin has roots in an Irish folktale about the devil and a fellow named Jack. Immigrants who came to America during the Irish potato famine (1845-1850) brought along their traditions of Halloween and Jack O' Lanterns. The folktale originally had Jack place the piece of burning coal he received from the devil into a turnip; however, when pumpkins were found more readily available than turnips in the New World, the pumpkin eventually replaced the turnip in the folktale.
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