THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — halloween

Love it or loathe it, Halloween is upon us once again.  Why are supermarket shelves groaning under the mass of pumpkins ? Well, we all blame the Americans but that is only partly true as in times of yore it was an Irish custom on All Hallows Eve to carve a turnip into Jack-o'-lantern because a potato was too small and squidgy.  This was done, all because of a fokelore tale that went something like this:-  Stingy Jack,a lazy but wily blacksmith tricked Satan into climbing an apple tree, then trapped him by carving crosses around the trunk which Satan...