. Naturally, the still happy did not want to be possessed, and so for protection, Pumkin with hideous candle-lit faces were carved out of turnips and carried as lanterns to scare away the malevolent spirits. Also, Samhain is the last of the three harvest Sabbats. Instead, the Devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness. The Irish used turnips as their Pumkin originally, but when the immigrants came to America, the found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. The leaves of the trees are beginning to fall, days are getting shorter and hostcolder, that means Dark.
Naturally, the still.
