Interesting (unconfirmed) fact(?) about Jack-O-Lanterns: They weren't a Halloween tradition to start- but one story from history was when a cult (parts unknown) kidnapped a child for sacrifice they would leave a jack-o-lantern on the doorstep so that they would know that they had already taken a child from the home and that they weren't to do it to that family again. I dunno, I heard it on Glenn Beck today- sounded like BS... but you never know- history is full of crazy stuff.