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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:05 am
by MHooch
Nothing says Halloween like a grinning Jack-O-Lantern!
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:14 am
by tomanderson
The jack-o-lantern for me!
All the other images you see, the cartoon witch, bats, owls, ghosts--those you will find in other contexts. But the jack-o-lantern only appears in a Halloween context.
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 12:19 pm
by JACKRYAN592
Don't forget about Halloween costumes, and trick or treating. But I agree, there is something special about old JOL
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 2:56 pm
by I B Howlin' Wolfman
Jack-O-Lantern.
All the way.
It's a tradition from Poland, or Germany I believe. (They used to carve turnips,) then switched to Pumpkins when imagrants came to the USA.
It's supposed to ward off Evil Spirits, because it is believed that the barrier that separates the world of the dead, and the world of the living, was at it's thinnest around the fall months. Thusly, the mean and evil faces were carved to scare away the spirits.
So it seems fitting that the Jack-O-Lantern would become the symbol for Halloween.
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:00 am
by Dutchess of Darkness
Well I can't say that I have "one" Defining symbol for Halloween. My First's would be tied at:
1) Witches, Black Cats, Pumpkins & Bats
2) Vampires, Graveyards, Crows, Skeletons, Monsters
3) Skulls, Cauldrons, Headless Horseman, Ghosts, Gargoyles, SPiders
Well thats a few groupings for me