The Story of 'Stingy Jack'
Stingy Jack was a gambling, drunk farmer who liked to play tricks on people, one day he fooled the Devil into climing into an apple tree when he hurridly carved a cross symbol into the tree therefor forbidding the Devil to come down. He then made the Devil promis to him not to take his soul to hell once he died.
Stingy Jack then lived a cruel and mean life, untill the day he died when he was turned away from Heaven for being such a cruel creature. But he could not enter into Hell so he was forced to walk the eternal darkness between Heaven and Hell.
Taking pity on Stingy Jack, the Devil tossed him one piece of coal from the buring fires of Hell to light his way. Stingy Jack placed this in a carved out turnip (Jack O'Lantern) and raomed the earth with no resting place.
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