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Spooky tales: When Jack let the Devil buy his beer
At Halloween it’s a long-standing tradition to carve wicked faces into pumpkins but one story relates how the custom derives from the tale of an Irish drunk who tricked the Devil into buying him ale and was condemned to forever walk the Earth. ...