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In Scotland what vegetable is traditionally carved into a Jack o'lantern?
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoTraditionally turnips and swedes were carved before the more recent introduction of pumpkins.
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What vegetable was traditionally carved into a jack-o'-lantern in Scotland?
The vegetable was a turnip. It was a turnip because the Celts believed that the head contained wisdom and the energy of the body. They would "headhunt" them and stick them to the doors to frighten off harmful spirits.
In Scotland what vegetable was traditionally carved into a jack-o'-lantern?
Jack-o'-lanterns have been carved into many different vegetables over the years, pumpkins being the most popular and gourds being one of the first. In Scotland, turnips were quite popular as well as pumpkins.
What vegetable was carved before pumpkin?
gourds
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Jack o lanterns were originally carved using what vegetable?
Turnips.
What vegetable is carved and judged at a festival in Oaxaca Mexico?
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Jack-O-Lanterns were originally carved using what vegetable?
"Turnips" and sometimes potatoes.
What did Scotland carve insted of jack o lanterns?
Turnips were carved instead of pumpkins.
What vegetable were jack-o-lanterns carved?
Historically, people in Ireland and Scotland, carved scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away wandering evil spirits. The English used large beets.Once immigrants came to the United States they discovered that pumpkins, a fruit native to America, was the perfect carving fruit.
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Why have pyramids of Egypt survived whereas the ziggurats of Mesopotamia have not?
Pyramids were carved from stone, and Ziggurats were traditionally made with glazed bricks which apparently degraded more easily.
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