Jack-o'-lantern (disambiguation)
Look up Jack O'Lantern, jack-o'-lantern, jack-o’-lantern, jack o'lantern, or 🎃 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Jack-o'-lantern may be:
Customs and folklore
- In American English, a jack-o'-lantern (alternately spelled "jack o' lantern"), is a decoratively carved and internally lit pumpkin or turnip, named after the role of such vegetables in folklore tales about such lights
- In English folklore, jack-o'-lantern is an alternative term for will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus, an unearthly light which attracts travellers
- In Irish folklore, jack-o'-lantern is an alternative term for Stingy Jack, also known as the Smith or Drunk Jack
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Jack O'Lantern (DC Comics), several DC Comics superheroes
- Jack O'Lantern (Marvel Comics), several Marvel Comics supervillains
- Pyro Jack, demon found in the series of games Shin Megami Tensei
Other arts, entertainment, and media
- Jack O'Lantern (film), a 2004 film
- Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, a magazine
- The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze, an annual, nighttime, Halloween event produced by Historic Hudson Valley at Van Cortlandt Manor
Other uses
- Omphalotus olearius mushroom, commonly known as the jack-o-lantern mushroom
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Jack-o'-lantern.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.