folklore

  • Halloween and the Legend of the Jack-O-Lantern (one version)*

    By Larry Peterson My Annual Halloween Post  (Written way back when on a  stormy All Hallows Eve) Long ago in Ireland, the land of shamrocks, leprechauns, soft winds and smiles, there lived a man named  Jack. Jack was quite lazy and did not like to work. But he had the gift of “blarney” and could…