![]() ![]() Gourds grow wild in wet climates in South America. ![]() We figured out how to farm them over here eventually of course, but under the natural climate they dont get very big nor give much of a yield. Turnips simply didnt grow as easily in the Americas. Jack was made to wander the Earth forever with his Jack-O-Lantern, never able to rest, except on Halloween night. The jack-o-lantern has a long history with Halloween, although our favorite demonic faces havent always been carved out of pumpkins. The introduction of pumpkin jack-o-lanterns was a colonial invention. The turnip had been carved into a face with a grin full of broken teeth that mocked Jack. A Celtic tradition dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries, jack-o’-lanterns first started when people carved grotesque and monstrous faces into turnips (and other root vegetables, such as potatoes and beets) and placed them on windows and doorsteps to ward off unwanted visitors and evil spirits. From the 14th century 'will-o-the-wisps to the 17th century Huck Finns Jack-o’-lantern’s. The ancient pagan traditions, including 'trick or treating' and turnip lanterns have been retained and integrated into the new holiday. Halloween itself is a very, very old holiday. The patch includes a few additional tweaks, like a greater chance to gather acorns and birch seeds while chopping down trees, some improvements in fuling combat AI, and others. The female Demon who’d had the cross burned into her chest threw Jack a large turnip and a candle. Jack-o-lantern was assumed to be a man with a lantern. ![]()
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