Of all the things wrong here it's silly to focus on this, but I love the way that when the Druids go house to house collecting human sacrifices (wtf?) they leave a jack o'lantern in return...and it's a pumpkin.
Indeed, swede or turnip lanterns were what we used to carve when I were a lad in Scotland.
They showed a Poirot set during Halloween last week, and the fact that the upper-middle class lady hosting a party in England during the late 1920's or early 1930's had the kids carving pumpkins screamed out at me as being unlikely. Unless anyone prove me wrong on that one.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the original legend around Jack-O-Lanterns about this guy named Jack, cutting up a turnip or something to protect himself from the devil?
Because protecting oneself from the devil is definitely satanic.
In fact, isn't that where the dressing up part came from too?
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Date: 2010-11-01 02:20 pm (UTC)Pretty sure the pumpkin is an American twist.
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Date: 2010-11-01 03:30 pm (UTC)They showed a Poirot set during Halloween last week, and the fact that the upper-middle class lady hosting a party in England during the late 1920's or early 1930's had the kids carving pumpkins screamed out at me as being unlikely. Unless anyone prove me wrong on that one.
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Date: 2010-11-02 03:41 am (UTC)Because protecting oneself from the devil is definitely satanic.
In fact, isn't that where the dressing up part came from too?