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| | Jack-o'-lantern |
 | | Although there is a tradition in the British Isles of carving a lantern from a rutabaga, mangelwurzel, or turnip, the practice was first named and associated with Halloween in North America, where the pumpkin was available, and much larger and easier to carve. |
| | In 1837 Jack-o'-lantern appeared as a term for a carved vegetable lantern in America but was not specifically with Halloween until 1866. |
| | Despite the colorful legends, the term jack-o'-lantern originally meant a night watchman, or man with a lantern, with the earliest known use in the mid-17th century; and later, meaning an ignis fatuus or will-o'-the-wisp. |
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