Webquest: Halloween Activity 2

Popular Halloween traditions

1.  The Jack O'Lantern tradition originated from which Irish myth?  About a man nicknamed "Stingy Jack"
2. What did Jack do with the coin instead? Why?  Jack keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross. Because he didn't want use his coin.
3. Under what condition did Jack free the devil? Not bother Jack for one year. If Jack die he would not claim his soul.
4. What trick did Jack play the follwing year and how did he prevent the devil coming down from the tree? Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree's bark so that the Devil could not come down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years.
5. What happend soon after? Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way.
6. What problem did jack then face?Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the Earth with ever since.
7. What did the Irish call Jack's ghost? "Jack of the Lantern,"  "Jack O'Lantern."
8. What did the Irish then begin to make and place in their windows and doorways and why?
9. What did the vegetable become in America?