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Historically, people in Ireland and Scotland, carved scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away wandering evil spirits. The English used large beets.

Once immigrants came to the United States they discovered that pumpkins, a fruit native to America, was the perfect carving fruit.

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Turnip. The tradition of carving a lantern started in the British Isles and was originally carved out of a turnip.

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squash and any other large hard vegy

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Pumpkins

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