Cheeky little Halloween top 5! Now I did one last year so had to go for more spurious content 1) The largest pumpkin ever measured was grown by lumber salesman Tim Mathison. It weighed in at 2,032 pounds and took 105 days to grow in his backyard 2) Using pumpkins as jack-o’-lanterns is a Celtic custom intended to welcome home the spirits of deceased ancestors while simultaneously warding off evil spirits, and the restless soul of “Stingy Jack” 3) “Stingy Jack”, as the Irish myth goes, made it a habit of playing tricks on the Devil. Once Jack died, God didn’t want him in heaven and the devil, put off by his tricks, would not claim his soul either–sending him off to roam the earth at night with only a burning coal to light the way. “Stingy Jack” put that coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the earth every since. 4) Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween 5) Bobbing for apples is thought to have originated from the Roman harvest festival that honored Pomona, the goddess of fruit trees. Young unmarried people would bob for apples floating in water or hanging from a string, and the first to bite into the apple would be the next one allowed to marry.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:35:32 +0000
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