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Jack Of The Lantern First and foremost in Halloween symbology is the 'Jack-O-Lantern', or carved Pumpkin. The tradition of carving pumpkins originates from an Irish legend, about a man nicknamed...
because on Halloween people built big bonfires and that magnetizes insects and bats would feast on them and so now bats are a common sight on Halloween bonfires
This is a left-over symbol from midevial superstitious propaganda. Halloween happens to fall on a very important Pagan Holiday, Samhain (pronounced Sow, as in Cow, -en.) Some theorize that the...
Ghost are apart of Halloween because on October 31, during Samhain, it was believed that ghost would walk the Earth again and people could ask them questions about the future year.