he gave Jack a lantern and ever since he is known as "Jack the lantern".

the cloth on the table and Tom lit the lantern and put it in the middle of the table. And they sat down beside the table and out hopped twelve little men with big sticks and bet Tom and his father inside and out and went back in to the lantern again Tom got and snapped the lantern and ran out the door and kept running till he came to the Lord's house. He knocked and got in and the door man told him to stand in the hall. And the door man told the Lord, and the Lord came out to him and asked him what he wanted And Tom told him he had another lantern. "Well" said the Lord "I will introduce you to my friends. "We are having a party. So the lord brought Tom in and said that Tom had another lantern. So Tom lit it and put it in the middle of the table and out hopped six little men with big sticks and started beating the Lord and his friend. At last the Lord shouted to stop them "I will" said Tom "When I get my own lantern back". "Take it" said the Lord. "There it is on the table" So Tom shouted and the men went in to the lantern again and Tom snapped the two lanterns and went home to his father The next day the Lord came to the farmer to get the lantern back. So the farmer wouldn't give the lantern back and the Lord went to take it off the shelf. And the farmer kept him back and

Jack o' the Lantern is supposed to be a person who goes abroad at night to put people astray. He carries with him a lighted lantern. When a person is coming towards his house, he mistakes the light from the lantern for the light from his own house. As he goes towards the light, Jack o' the Lantern moves away and so brings the person further astray. It is said that if a person puts on his coat inside out, it will be impossible for Jack o' the

and sheep and pigs and hens. And they lived happy for many years until they got poor again. They were selling all their stock to buy food. At last they had only one cow left and the farmer said to his son that they would wish again. So they put the cloth on the table and put the stick in the middle and they wished for plenty of food and money and for more stock. But as soon as they had finished the stick hopped off the table and bet (beat) Tom and his father inside out till at last Tom shouted "stop" and the stick stopped. Then Tom said it was better to go to bed and rest and he would go the fair the next morning and sell the cow or may be he would meet the little man again. "All right" said the farmer. "We will go to bed". So next the farmer the farmer and his son got up early and when the farmer had the cow milked Tom brought her to the fair. And as he was going along he met the little man again "Well" said the little man "I told you not to wish twice and you did. Anyway where are you going now?" I am going to the fair to sell my cow". I will buy her said the little man "What will you give me" said Tom. "I will give you this lantern" said the little man. "All you have to do is to put a cloth on the table and light the lantern and put in the middle of the table." So Tom took the lantern and went home and as soon as he came to the door he shouted to his father "Father Father I have got a lantern". so he told his father the whole story and they put the cloth on the table and lit the lantern and put in the middle of

(Jacky the Lantern) came on again the second night but got no one to follow him.

by "Jack of the Lantern."

A lantern can be made from a turnip. This is how it is done. A middle sized turnip is got. It is turned upside down leaving the root to let out the smoke. A hole is scooped in the turnip with a knife. The inside of the lantern is then scooped out making a grip in the middle to hold the candle. When this is done the lantern is made.

selves in entirely unfamiliar surroundings. They might actually be in their own or a neighbour's field, but so confused have they become that they do not recognise it. The old remedy for Jackie's confusion is to sit down and take off your coat, turn it inside out and then you will find that you know where you are.Jackie-the-Lantern is more often seen in boggy places than in others, which gives rise to the supposition that the light is really phosporous, which is very common in that kind of soil. The old story-tellers of my district would never allow that it is a true explanation. Sure enough in my mountainy home I have seen light dancing, now here, now there, over the bog which are undoubtedly of such a nature and are to be seen chiefly in frosty weather. But we have also seen a clear steady light like the light of a stable lantern and moving with the steadiness of a lantern carried by a steady hand, moving across the mountain where no human being had any call to be moving with a lantern and at hours when most people were in bed except those of us who were returning

Once on a time a man dreamt of gold hidden at the foot of the hill near a large rock. He told four of his neighbours about it and asked them would they come and dig with him. They gave consent and he fixed the night they were to go. He invited them to his house , And treated them well with whiskey each man had taken a lantern. The man who dreamt of the gold to Limerick and bought a lantern which was to hold against rain or wind It was guaranteed to him. They left the house just before midnight. They had about a quarter of a mile to go. They started to dig. The man who dreamt held the good lantern after a half hour's digging. The lamp went out they lit it again & again it went out. It occured four or five times. The next thing that happened was that one of the men was missing. The man who dreamt of the money said we shall go home and so they did. There was no more about it until the day after when they met and talked about it the man who was missing said he was taken of his feet and left in a field away and said the cause of the lantern quenching was that horsemen rode furiously around them then the other two men saw or heard nothing. The man of the next house his cows were bellowing at that very hour He got up out of his bed and went to see his cows and when he went out to his yard the whole place was on fire He returned in and told his family that the place was in fire This thing happened about 30 years ago a half mile from Toomaline two of the

flash and so the smith lived for years after. Then he got sick and he died and went straight to hell and the man at the gates of hell asked him what was he and he said the smith from Ireland. Then the man went in and told the devil who was at the gate and the devil said not to let him in for he would only cause a disturbance. So the man went out and told the smith that the devil would not let him in. And the smith said that he had no place to go that he should go in. Then the devil told the man to put a lantern in his hand and send him back to Ireland as Jackie the Lantern. Then the devil said that he was not fit for hell or heaven and that is how Jackie the Lantern got his name.

Jack- O'- The- Lantern.If there exists such an unseen power as Jack-o'-the-lantern, it is probably in the people's own imagination, but this superstition is rapidly dying out. The old Irish people had a very strong belief in this spirit, which is said to appear in the form of a flash-lantern and to dazzle and lead astray whoever may cross its path.Some very strange and amusing tales are told about this powerful spirit. An old neighbour once told me that he had been having a game of cards in a neighbouring house which was situated in from the road in a lonely spot. it was late when he was coming home and he had to cross the fields to his house. As he was doing so the strange lantern sprung up before him, lighting and quenching, until he was absolutely dazzled and did not know where he was. Each time the lantern lighted up he could see by the light a wall, which he went in the direction of, but then the light went out again, leaving him in complete darkness. He spent the night in this manner, trying to find out where he was and at the first gleam of day he found himself miles off his track. He had nothing to do but to turn and journey home again.It is said that at the first cock-crow the light must disappear, but I would not like, if I chanced to meet such a person, to have to wait until the cock should please to crow to be redeemed.J. Griffin. 58 yrs.

after the lantern was lit again and he wondered how it got lit. He left them as there was no sign of the cow calving. Just as he was passing the fort he heard a woman crying and the lantern quenched again. He did not listen long but as quickly as he could he footed it home in the dark.

617the table and sat down beside the table. Not long after six little men hopped out of the lantern and filled the table with gold plates of all sorts of food and went back into the lantern again. So Tom and his father finished all on the table and waited to see would the little men come out for the gold plates again. So they waited and waited and the little men would not come out . So next day, Tom went to town and sold the gold plates. So a lord who lived not far off came to see the farmer and he asked the farmer where he was getting all the money. And the farmer told him the secret and the lord said to the farmer that he would give him a hundred pounds for the lantern. And the farmer gave it to him. Many years later, the farmer got poor again and all his hens, cows and sheep died but he had only one cow still left. And the farmer said to his son to go to the fair the next day and sell the cow and he might meet the little man again. So next morning, Tim got up early and went off to the fair with the cow and he met the little man. "Well", said the little man, "I told you not to give away the lantern"
Tom replied, "It was my father that gave it away".
"Well, where are you going now?" said the little man
"I am going to the fair to sell my cow.
"I will give you another lantern" said the little man.
"All right", said Tom and he went home to tell his father. When he got home, his father asked him did he get another lantern and Tom said he did. So the father put

for rabbits. A good of boys go out with sticks, and a lantern. When they come to a bush they hold the lantern still until the birds get dazzled by the light. Then they hit the birds with a stick, and kill them. If there were a good crowd in a house by night they would sit around the fire and one man would get a cord and stick it through the button hole of his coat and

An old custom was to take a lantern in the winter time and go to a wood or place where birds were sleeping. The light of the lantern dazzled the birds and they were easily caught.

Once upon a time there lived a man by the name of Jack O' the Lantern or Jacky the Lantern. Jacky was a shoemaker and he lived alone in an old thatched house making shoes and boots. Everything he had was enchanted, so that if you sat on anything in his house you would cling to it. One day the devil came to Jacky to

died. When he went to heaven God told him that they had no room for him. He then went to Purgatory but he got the same answer there. He went from that to hell but the devil would not allow him to go in because he had killed fifteen of themselves. Then the devil gave him a lantern and told him to go away and since then he is called Jack o’ the Lantern.

would never come for him again. The blacksmith left him out at last, and he went away. When the blacksmith died he was not left into heaven. He came to the gates of hell but when the devil saw him he became afraid of him and would not let him in there either. He was given a lantern and condemned to travel about the world trying to put people astray. He is now know as Jack o' the Lantern.

would have no more to do with him. He relieved him of the chair and sent him in a Willy O Wisp or Jackey of the lantern, and that is the local account of the origin of Jack of the Lantern a light supposed to have been seen at night.

There was a field at the back of Mr McInerneys house. It was called "the fairies field"
Once night my grandfather was out very late looking at the sheep. He had a lantern in his hand and it was lighted. There is a big hollow in the middle of the field and there is a big rock inside in it. As he was passing the rock the lantern whent out and he fell on the ground. After a while he tried to light the lantern but he could not.
A small man came out of the rock and he was dressed in red clothes. He began talking to my grandfather and he asked him where he lived and he told him.
Then the small man lit the lantern for him and told him to go home. My grandfather went home and he told the story to my Father and Mother.
Next night he went out to