Black cats and Jack-o’-lantern
Many Halloween customs come from the
ancient Celts. It was their belief that
on Halloween all those people who had died during the year were gathered up and
taken to Druid heaven; however, those people who had been bad were turned into
cats and not taken. The
really evil people were turned into black cats.
Irish immigrants to North America took the
tradition of carving out turnips and putting a hot coal inside. They then put this on their doorsteps at
Halloween to keep away evil spirits. In
the US, the Irish soon discovered that the indigenous pumpkins were larger and
easier to carve into jack-o’-lanterns.
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