But once the Devil had used his powers to shape-shift into a coin, instead of using it to pay the bill, Jack slipped it into his pocket-next to a silver cross. This was just the kind of angry confusion the Devil liked, so he agreed to Jack’s plan. Once the bill was paid, Jack said, the Devil could turn himself back into his original form, and everyone would simply think the coin had been stolen-and quarrel over it. When it came time to pay the bill, Stingy Jack, true to his name, said he had no money, and he convinced the Devil to use his powers to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to pay for the drinks. The first time, Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. Two different times, he even tricked the Devil himself! He delighted in playing mean tricks on people, and they often fell for his tricks.
Stingy Jack was lazy, but he was also shrewd. “You can’t get money from me when I don’t have it.” “You can’t squeeze blood from a turnip,” he liked to say when an angry shopkeeper tried to get him to pay for something he had stolen. Jack’s favorite food was turnips, and he often carried a turnip with him-just in case he should get hungry before he found a bit of food to steal. Many years ago, in a village in the Irish countryside, there lived a miserable man known as “Stingy Jack.” Because he was lazy and opposed to work, he lived by stealing from others. Read it to your kids in your scariest voice! WHY WE CARVE PUMPKINS INTO JACK-O-LANTERNS: A BRIEF HISTORYĭo you know where the tradition of carving pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns came from? It begins with an Irish legend and ends with Irish immigrants to the United States.
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