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Published: 2019-10-22 21:39:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 4360; Favourites: 231; Downloads: 12
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Stingy Jack was a devious drunkard so conniving he even outwitted the Devil himself. Jack convinced the fallen angel to turn himself into a coin so Jack could pay his bar tab ("The barkeep is super religious, it'll be hilarious!"), only for Stingy Jack to pocket the satanic cash with a cross, freeing the Devil only when he promised to never take Jack's soul.
When he eventually died, Jack found himself barred from both heaven and hell (the Devil was all too keen to keep his promise). With no other option, Stingy Jack wanders the earth without end, harassing all he crosses paths with and occasionally carving faces in fruits he may or may not later hurl at onlookers. Basically just continuing from where he left off, really.
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A tale from Florida claims that a similarly unpleasant drunkard successfully dissuaded the Devil from collecting his similarly tarnished soul, so that, when that horrible old curmudgeon should have died, instead, he simply became older and older and more decrepit until he simply disintegrated into bug-infested beard, which then blew into the branches of a cypress tree and became the first Spanish moss or "old man's beard."
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I really like how Jack looks like one big, nasty turnip, it's a nice reference to what Jack O' Lanterns used to be made from.
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Acknowledgement for the original Jack O'Lantern legend, yes! I love that old story
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