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This story of the Geico lantern.

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Pumpkins with glowless faces and illuminated candles are a sure sign of the Halloween season.

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The practice of decorating Jack-o'-lanterns originates in Ireland,

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where lads tarpins and potatoes serve as early cabins.

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In fact, the name Jack-o'-lantern comes from an Irish folktale about a man named Stingy Jack.

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Irish immigrants brought the tradition to America home of the pumpkin

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and it became an integral part of Halloween festivities

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People have been making jack-o'-lanterns at Halloween for centuries

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The practice originated from an Irish mythological man nicknamed Stingy Jack

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According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the devil to have a dream with him

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true to his name stingy jack didn't want to pay for his drink so he convinced the devil to turn

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himself into a coin that jack could use to buy their drinks once the devil did so jack decided

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to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross which prevented the devil

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from changing back into his original form.

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Jack eventually freed the devil under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year

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and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul.

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The next year, Jack again tricked the devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit.

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While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree's bark

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so that the devil could not come down until the devil promised Jack.

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not to bother him for ten more years.

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Soon after, Jack died.

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As the legend goes,

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God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven.

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The devil, upset by the trick he had played on him

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and can't be his war not to claim his soul,

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would not allow Jack into hell.

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She sent Jack off into the dark night

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with only a burning coal to light his way.

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Jack put the coal into a cavern and turned it

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and has been roaming the earth with ever since.

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The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as Jakob the Lantern, and then simply Jako Lantern.

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In Ireland's Scotland, people began to make their own versions of Jako Lanterns,

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by craving scary faces into turnips or potatoes,

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and placing them into windows or knee doors

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to frighten away Stinky Jack and other wandering evil spirits.

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In England, large bits are used.

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Immigrants from these countries brought the Jack O'Lantern tradition with them

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when they came to the United States.

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They soon found out that pumpkins, a fruit native to America,

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Make the perfect duck or lanterns.