林麓是吃货
万圣节英语鬼故事:
Well, the show went on, and the stories kept on becoming a little more terrifying each time, and the children were mesmerized into complete silence. At last he produced a series which represented a little boy passing through his own park — Lufford, I mean — in the evening.
Every child in the room could recognize the place from the pictures. And this poor boy was followed, and at last pursued and overtaken, and either torn in pieces or somehow made away with, by a horrible hopping creature in white, which you saw first dodging about among the trees, and gradually it appeared more and more plainly。
Mr. Farrer said it gave him one of the worst nightmares he ever remembered, and what it must have meant to the children doesn’t bear thinking of.
Of course this was too much, and he spoke very sharply indeed to Mr. Karswell, and said it couldn’t go on. All *he* said was: “Oh, you think it’s time to bring our little show to an end and send them home to their beds? Very well!”
And then, if you please, he switched on another slide, which showed a great mass of snakes, centipedes, and disgusting creatures with wings, and somehow or other he made it seem as if they were climbing out of the picture and getting in amongst the audience.
and this was accompanied by a sort of dry rustling noise which sent the children nearly mad, and of course they stampeded.
译文:
节目继续进行着。每个故事都比前一个更恐怖一些,孩子们鸦雀无声,看得入了迷。最后,他放映了一系列幻灯片:一个小男孩在夜间穿过他自己的公园——卢福尔德公园。
所有在场的孩子都认得图片里的那个地方。一个跳跃的、恐怖的白色怪物跟着图中可怜的小男孩,怪物刚开始在树丛中东躲西藏,尔后越来越清晰可辨。它最终追上了小男孩,逮住他,要么把他撕成了碎片,要么不知用什么方法把他杀掉了。
法雷尔先生说,因为这些画面,他做了这辈子最恐怖的一场噩梦,而这些画面对现场的孩子们意味着什么,他简直不敢去想。很明显,这太过分了,他厉声斥责了卡斯韦尔先生,并表示应该马上停止放映。
而卡斯韦尔只回了一句:“哦,您觉得应该结束这场小小的演出,送孩子们回家睡觉了?好!”然后,请原谅,他换上了另一张图片。这张图片里爬满了蛇、蜈蚣和一些让人厌恶的长着翅膀的生物。不知用了什么方法,他让这些生物看上去像是要从画面中爬出来,奔向观众似的。伴随而来的还有干涩的“沙沙”声,简直要把孩子们吓疯了。
墨墨姐姐
关于鬼,历史上有着纷繁的记载,而把一件子虚乌有的事讲得活灵活现,从来就是文学家的天赋,下面这些是我为大家推荐的几篇英语短篇恐怖 故事
Seated on the flat wagon carriage with his two sons. The eldest son Jeff he was 17 years old this year, the younger son He Jian fifteen years old this year.
At a time when the spring planting season, the family just finished busy in their own field to fat, driving a carriage on his way home.
Two sons are in high spirits around a plate of soft, not a mess, in the shape of something like a mass of rotting flesh, this thing is just fertilizer application in the fields, dig out from the ground.
Father and son three people see along while, also didn't see this is a what thing. Soft hand touch touch feeling, it seems, are still moving, it should be a living creature.
The last three father and son want to stepping up people often say, look at this thing and usually people say about. Has no fixed shape, like a lump of rotten meat, heard that is a very rare thing, take back may sell a good price.
Like this father and son three people take putting together to, open carriage went to the house.
This He Lao two driving in the car, two sons sat down on a flat trailer idle, took the heap of doubt is stepping in your hands to play with.
This he yong and He Jiange two like a lark, fight rob to want oneself with the pile of rotten meat. Didn't expect that in the process of competition, the second He Jian a didn't hold, the pile of rotten meat from He Jian hand fell to the ground, was a moving carriage a wagon wheel pressure after the dish.
Listen son yelling, He Lao stopped his carriage, two father and son three people dropped out of the car for the pile of rotten meat, only to find that what also can't find it! The suspected tai sui pile of rotten meat, has gone out of thin air.
Now that can't find, think well, father and son three people didn't care about this matter, will open carriage to return home.
At noon the next day, when the father and son three people like last night busy work in the field, but still open the four road car flat wagon toward their home.
When the carriage driving to drop the rotten meat section, He Jian He Lao 2 of 2 son, for no reason! From the flat wagon, with a big head fell down.
When He Lao two stopped his carriage in the son he cries, the He Jian has been flat wagon wheels from the heavy pressure on the past. He Jian have few spitting blood, words haven't say it out.
Just still alive and kicking children, quickly, it stands on who, who also can't stand it. So two He Lao two husband and wife, not Gu Guzu dissuade the middleman and villagers, indifferent to the He Jian buried properly.
In rural areas has an unspoken words, that is an unnatural death of an underage people, cannot be buried. Can get a lot of straw on the body, pour oil, a fire so far. This case if the implementation of the burial, occur resin become the bane of the neighbourhood.
He reluctantly couple two desperation, determined bought a thick coffin, buried He Jian is a piece of the woods behind the village.
Is probably buried He Jian in less than a week, in our village liujia kannika nimtragol, haiyan in the bride's family go walking after supper. When passing the small forest He Jian tomb, was scared to death, stumbled ran to the door, he lost consciousness.
The family then make haiyan wake up later, haiyan awe to the family tells the story of a strange thing.
Originally, in haiyan will be passing the He Jian springing, unexpectedly standing besides the found there a thin figure.
Haiyan involuntary played a quivering, trembling voice asked a who is there? Who know each other unexpectedly replied: madame, is my He Jian.
He Jian is not dead? Haiyan's first reaction is to see the ghost! Spelled a life calf twitch, also dare not answer, ran back to home.
Along the way heard behind him has been a voice shouted again wait for me, I with you together back to the village.
Hearing this, the family feel scalp Fried, feel incredible, can it really be that cause death He Jianqi resin?
So, haiyan accompanied in her family to He Lao second home. Didn't know just what had happened and He Lao two husband and wife both said, the couple not only don't believe, but also a face not happy, Shouting loudly to haiyan family to push out.
Really had an accident, that night when I was in the middle of the night the event!
Village carpenter's house have a 14 year old daughter, named Zhang Fang. This good sleep sleep until midnight, suddenly open lamp cord, kneeling on the ground to the parents' bang bang bang! Upon the three XiangTou, mouth say: I'm going to the village after the woods with He Jian brother, here to say good-bye to her parents, next life goodbye!
The carpenters, husband and wife two daughter is this Yin cece scared half to death, siming came near, and took her daughter, ask what is going on?
Helpless Zhang Fang pale, glassy-eyed, corners of the mouth hanging eerie smile, being from the pull of the parents, turned around and pushed the door and ran to the village come and watch disappeared in the vast darkness.
, the population of the village are carpenter the cries of husband and wife two to stir up, when asked to understand is how one and the same time, have ran to the village after He Jian graveyard.
Come to He Jian tomb, where there is Zhang Fang shadow? Nothing, only the sound of the brush the wind blowing leaves.
Zhang Fang disappeared so strange! The villagers found He Lao 2 home, what happened with He Lao two husband and wife both said, meaning is to find a way to look at? Perhaps is really He Jian tomb is haunted.
But this He Lao two couples two just don't listen to that set of evil, even to the people ignored. Both husband and wife is that the villagers for their good He Jian burial practice biased, thinking method of fault to put pressure on their husband and wife.
Very helpless things like this go away in the past. But the very next day night, the village of villagers in your home's second girl jade lotus, also like Zhang Fang missing as before, on his knees in the middle of the night kowtowing, bade farewell to his parents.
In your couple with jade lotus elder sister, has failed to hold three people strange bade farewell to accompany He Jian brother jade lotus. See jade lotus disappeared in the vast darkness.
I have a friend, and the challenges and this spring, were killed in a car accident.
His QQ also lying in my friends list, but head is always gray.
He was very love my novel, also said to do my hardcore fans. I know it's just a compliment, but now he really become a pile of ashes, buried in the cold ground.
It happened last month.
That night, I turned on the computer, boarded the QQ as usual, then open the document, and began to write a new novel.
Suddenly, drops dripping, QQ above, a face in the flashing.
At the time of first saw the picture, my scalp like tattoos hedgehog, heart pounding.
The head is challenges!
My in the mind a tight, the brain a blank.
Window pops up a few lines of words: leaf hydrophobic, and archive of the novel? Come over me see.
I noticed that he is not want cook.
Is this a word, frighten I stay leng along while.
I don't know what to answer him, and in the chat window input words: challenges?
Drops drops.
Each other soon back: nonsense, fast burning up anything, I am so bored here.
I must have scared silly at that time, look like a pig liver. What age is this, even the demons also like to see a ghost story?
I don't want to provoke them, so back to, I this a few article archive, is uncle didn't contribute to the ghost, or sent to you see first?
Soon each other back to: all right.
I'll write five articles online for nearly half a month in the past. Each other after receiving, will soon get offline. I heaved a sigh of relief.
That evening, sleep very depressive, nightmares. The second day early in the morning, I will print copy, find a quiet corner, to the challenges burned in the past.
After about a month, I bring out those five novels, after revising, voted for the ghost uncle editor.
Editor from information in the QQ window: don't you make a mistake? This five story, half a month ago, were published in the journal of other.
My brain bomb exploded at a draught, then suddenly enlighted, violently pulled down the thigh!
His mama of, this is stolen draft!
Must be the disgusting guy, stole the jersey QQ number, cheated me copy!
Is when I am depressed to commit ritualistic, edit reply: that was a novice, the first five months before the draft, it's not easy. It is a pity, I hear that he went to the bank to withdraw money, a few days ago by a big truck to flying, died on the spot.
Black coffee on the table at the strange heat, I end up, gently sipped his.
My heart gave a evil laughter: the person is probably go to the bank to bring his fee, who knows?
I just remember, as a few months ago, the challenges are also by a big truck.
Doctor, I exactly what disease? Li Wang sat in the examination room chair, staring at the front of the doctor with a pile of paper tension of asked.
You have no disease, all the data are displayed normally.
But, I feel sleepy but I recently always, there is waist sour backache, and recently serious to see things in the evening.
Li Wang doctor looked at his pale face, and then pass the hand documents, he said: I believe in the data, you said the symptoms may really exist, but we can't check it out you what is ill, so, first you go home and watch a few days, if this phenomenon continues to last, I suggest you go to large hospital to see.
Took a stack of all kinds of paper, Li Wang face stiff expression. But under had to go home.
Li Wang was only recently discovered his strange disease, recently returned from their hometown, I sensed that walk with difficulty, like carrying a few jins things, even in the meal time will back because there was a sudden noisea pressure and cause he came close to lie prone on the table. Then he began to go to the hospital to check, but through several hospital, laboratory test results are the same, his body is healthy!
Walking in the street, feel the life is despair Li Wang, because what disease so would not let him have a horrible idea of terminally ill.
Walking, suddenly a chill struck, Li Wang feeling followed by a person, suddenly turned around, behind the empty, let alone a person, is a dog.
Strange, clearly feel someone behind me just now, how suddenly no? Was I hallucinating? Li Wang scratched his head and stay where they were, he now thought of is a person in this step, what's wrong with it to arrive. This bottom and hallucinations.
Li Wang hurriedly walked forward, product, product a nasty footsteps slowly with behind Li Wang Li Wangmeng turned around, is empty. This terrible feeling let him choke, there seems to be a kind of unknown creatures in following Li Wang. For an instant, a fear of not to speak of Ming instantly filled Li Wang, he ran forward, seems to want to get rid of that thing behind as soon as possible.
Li Wang Li Wang ~ ~ ~ ~ all of a sudden, if a have if have no voice coming from behind Li Wang.
Who is it? Li Wang suddenly turned wary of staring at the source of the voice behind them. But, there is empty, just now, that sounds exactly is who?
A person walking in the dark streets was scary things, moreover also met such a strange thing. The head of Li Wang emitted and close of sweat. He quietly stay where they were about ten minutes. Suddenly, a familiar pressure coming from behind.
Ahem Li Wang couldn't resist a cough.
Hee hee, fun, fun, ride Malaysia, ride Malaysia. A child laughing sound coming from behind Li Wang.
Who? Who's there! Li Wang nerve reflex to look behind him.
Hee hee, I want to be with you hiding a child laughing voice came again.
At that time, Li Wang smear at the moment, suddenly can't see a thing.
The symptoms appeared, and what's the matter?
All of a sudden, Li Wang inadvertently look down to the feet of water, thrilling scene appeared in front of his eyes. See was lying on his shoulder at the moment is a pale young children, and the hand of the child is covered his eyes!
This is this Li Wang try very hard to run forward, all fear of an instant hanging over him, feeling a twinge of cold, behind the imp clearly followed his is not a day for two days. His illness these days finally found out the root cause, everything turns out to be the kid in the mess up!
In Li Wang try very hard to run forward, suddenly don't know what is at the foot of tripped and Li Wang well with a large fall in front of the tip.
Who is this? It turned out that he was tripped by a lying on the old man in the dump.
See the old man got up and looked at the Li Wang, all of a sudden, dirty face flashes a little surprised, then, the old man took the Li Wang up out of the rubbish dump.
Young man, stepping on people do not know to apologize? The old man couldn't hear the tone of blame.
I see the hall hair black, recently feel lumbar acerbity backache, there is behind the strange feeling chills? The old man sitting on the ground, staring at Li Wang.
Li Wang is this strange old man got to be in a fog, but in the end the old man said was caught his attention. Li Wang because now know the source of the disease has been pestering his home, the old man can tell at a glance of his symptoms, perhaps can save his life.
Thought of here, Li Wang hurriedly got up and came to the old man and the respectful said: old man to help me, please.
See your boy is smart, I will help you once, you kids are staring at me at this very moment. Said the old man, from his pocket and took out a dusty red paper, and then his mouth murmured against the Li Wang read something behind. Moments later, I saw the old man fiercely open your eyes, your hands suddenly thrown at the behind Li Wang, oddly enough, the old man after finished these, Li Wang is obviously a relaxed feeling. He take out a cellular phone looked at, found on the shoulders of imp was gone at this time.
Thank you for your return Li Wang deferential knelt on the ground upon several XiangTou is finished.
Looking at Li Wang left, the old man staring at the front of the air suddenly said: dust to dusts, dirt to dirts, I save your life tonight, you are reborn.
Li Wang disease is so good, even the doctor of the hospital, feel very magical. But at the moment in the heart of Li Wang is one more won't resolve the bumps.
Originally, his shoulders the pestering his kid than someone else, it was his own son, a few years ago, the son of Li Wang because of congenital heart disease, often be in hospital, at that time, for only a month more than 2000 Li Wang is undoubtedly a big spending, forced to blind alley Li Wang produced a terrible idea, is in turn in the son, let him die!
Since his strange disease good Li Wang rarely go to the hospital, but recently the body somehow always can feel the heart waves colic, Li Wang again to go to the hospital tests.
But the assay of data Li Wang feel it's fate, he had a heart attack! Doctors also feel very strange, Li Wang tests repeatedly for many times before, are no exception, but according to the test out Li Wang have three years of heart disease.
And Li Wang son died just three years
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万圣节英语鬼故事:Red clothesIt was a foreign language schools in the women's dormitory, there are a number of times at night often have a red woman's clothes to sell door-to-door late at night, do not know how she was downstairs escaped inspection.Every day, all night, a knock-room, if someone opened the door and asked; 'red clothes do not want to /' As the girls were very angry after the quarrel, are not big cried, a few days this night. One night, That woman came again. Thunk! Thunk! When the door opened from the inside out one of the girls she roared; "what the red dress? I want the whole. How much does it cost?"Woman smiled, turned away and did not give her a red dress, and that night we all slept well, no one has come knocking at the door. The next day, the dormitories were all up, only that the women's big red red The roar of girls not to get up, her students opened her quilt, she is all red, her skin of the upper part of the body has been ripping up. Huang who have blood flow, looks like a dress Red pieces of clothing.红衣服那是一个外语学校的女生宿舍,有一些时间夜里经常有一个穿红衣服的女子深夜上门推销,也不知道她是怎么逃过楼下检查的。天天夜里都来,一间间房间的敲,如果有人开门就问;’要不要红衣服/’由于女生被吵后非常生气,都大叫着不要,一连几个晚上都这样;有一个晚上,那个女子又来了。咚!咚!这时门开了,从里面冲出一个女生对她大吼;"什么红色的衣服?我全要了。多少钱?"那女子笑了笑,转身走了,也没给她红色的衣服,那晚上大家都睡得很好,没有人再来敲门了。第二天,宿舍里的人全都起来了,只有那个冲红衣女子大吼的女生还没有起床,她的同学把她的被子掀开,她,她浑身都是红色的,她上身的皮已经被剥开了。血流得潢身,看起来就像是穿了一件红衣服。
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1 万圣节故事二则一.万圣节故事之一:HALLOWEEN关于万圣节有这样一个故事。是说有一个叫杰克的爱尔兰人,因为他对钱特别吝啬,就不允许他进入天堂,而被打入地狱。但是在那里他老是捉弄魔鬼撒旦,所以被踢出地狱,罚他提着灯笼永远在人世里行走。在十月三十一日爱尔兰的孩子们用土豆和罗卜制作“杰克的灯笼”,他们把中间挖掉、表面上打洞并在里边点上蜡烛。为村里庆祝督伊德神的万圣节,孩子们提着这种灯笼挨家挨户乞讨食物。这种灯笼的爱尔兰名字是“拿灯笼的杰克”或者“杰克的灯笼”,缩写为Jack-o'-lantern 现在拼写为jack-o-lantern。现在你在大多数书里读到的万圣节只是孩子们开心的夜晚。在小学校里,万圣节是每年十月份开始庆祝的。孩子们会制作万圣节的装饰品:各种各样桔黄色的南瓜灯。你可以用黑色的纸做一个可怕的造形——一个骑在扫帚把上戴着尖尖帽子的女巫飞过天空,或者是黑蝙蝠飞过月亮。这些都代表恶运。当然黑猫代表运气更差。有时候会出现黑猫骑在女巫扫帚后面飞向天空的造形。在万圣节的晚上,我们都穿着爸爸妈妈的旧衣服和旧鞋子,戴上面具,打算外出。比我们小的孩子必须和他们的母亲一块出去,我们大一点的就一起哄到邻居家,按他们的门铃并大声喊道:“恶作剧还是招待!”意思是给我们吃的,要不我们就捉弄你。里边的人们应该出来评价我们的化装。“噢!这是鬼,那是女巫,这是个老太婆。”有时候他们会跟我们一起玩,假装被鬼或者女巫吓着了。但是他们通常会带一些糖果或者苹果放进我们的“恶作剧还是招待”的口袋里。可是要是没人回答门铃或者是有人把我们赶开该怎么办呢?我们就捉弄他们,通常是拿一块肥皂把他们的玻璃涂得乱七八糟。然后我们回家,数数谁的糖果最多。还有一个典型的万圣节花招是把一卷手纸拉开,不停地往树上扔,直到树全被白纸裹起来。除非下大雪或大雨把纸冲掉,纸会一直呆在树上。这并不造成真正的伤害,只是把树和院子搞乱,一种万圣节的恶作剧。One story about Jack, an Irishman, who was not allowed into Heaven because he was stingy with his money. So he was sent to hell. But down there he played tricks on the Devil (Satan), so he was kicked out of Hell and made to walk the earth forever carrying a lantern.Well, Irish children made Jack's lanterns on October 31st fro m a large potato or turnip, hollowed out with the sides having holes and lit by little candles inside. And Irish children would carry them as they went fro m house to house begging for food for the village Halloween festival that honored the Druid god Muck Olla. The Irish name for these lanterns was "Jack with the lantern" or "Jack of the lantern," abbreviated as " Jack-o'-lantern" and now spelled "jack-o-lantern."The traditional Halloween you can read about in most books was just children's fun night. Halloween celebrations would start in October in every elementary school.Children would make Halloween decorations, all kinds of orange-paper jack-o-lanterns. And fro m black paper you'd cut "scary" designs ---an evil witch with a pointed hat riding through the sky on a broomstick, maybe with black bats flying across the moon, and that meant bad luck. And of course black cats for more bad luck. Sometimes a black cat would ride away into the sky on the back of the witch's broom.And on Halloween night we'd dress up in Mom or Dad's old shoes and clothes, put on a mask, and be ready to go outside. The little kids (children younger than we were) had to go with their mothers, but we older ones went together to neighbors' houses, ringing their doorbell and yelling, "Trick or treat!" meaning, "Give us a treat (something to eat) or we'll play a trick on you!" The people inside were supposed to come to the door and comment on our costumes.2 万圣节故事二则Oh! here's a ghost. Oh, there's a witch. Oh, here's an old lady.Sometimes they would play along with us and pretend to be scared by some ghost or witch. But they would always have some candy and maybe an apple to put in our "trick or treat bags." But what if no one come to the door, or if someone chased us away? Then we'd play a trick on them, usually taking a piece of soap and make marks on their windows. .And afterwards we would go home and count who got the most candy. One popular teen-agers' Halloween trick was to unroll a roll of toilet paper and throw it high into a tree again and again until the tree was all wrapped in the white paper. The paper would often stay in the tree for weeks until a heavy snow or rain washed it off. No real harm done, but it made a big mess of both the tree and the yard under it. One kind of Halloween mischief.二.万圣节故事之二:苹果树&南瓜灯万圣节定在每年的十一月一日,称为AllSaints'-Day。旧名叫作Hallowmas,不过万圣节的同根词Halloween更为响亮万圣节,一直沿用到现在,意思是万圣节前夜,即十月三十一日夜晚。大约公元前五世纪,爱尔兰凯尔特人开始在每年的十月三十一日,也就是夏季结束的时候庆祝他们的万圣节,表达对丰收的喜悦以及对太阳的膜拜。有趣的是,凯尔特人有一个类似佛教轮回转世的万圣节说法,他们认为在新年旧岁交接的时刻,也就是十月三十一日夜晚,鬼魂会现身阳世,寻找替身以获得新生。万圣节凯尔特人不采用拜祭灶王爷,请他老人家上天言好事的做法,而是用一种“以夷制夷”的严厉手段来对付鬼魂。为了摆脱鬼魂的纠缠,万圣节这天晚上人们会把家里的炉火灭掉,营造一个寒冷阴森的环境,并把自己打扮成鬼怪的模样,大声怪叫。即便吓不走鬼魂,也要让鬼魂分不清谁是活人、谁是鬼魂,从而无法找到替身。这么恐怖的万圣节演变到今天,竟成了一个最令人开心的万圣节,历史又跟我们开了一个善意的玩笑。这一天是一年之中,国外小孩子最兴奋的一天。万圣节早上孩子去上学的时候,就拿了服饰和糖果,准备参加学校组织的万圣节聚会。孩子们自己动手布置会场,装饰环境。桔色、黑色和白色是万圣节传统的装饰主调。万圣节中桔色的南瓜灯笼、黑色的猫、蜘蛛和女巫、白色的蜘蛛网和骷髅都是必不可少的角色。万圣节孩子们装扮成女巫和海盗,在朦胧的桔黄色灯光下表演万圣节玩游戏。最流行的万圣节游戏是“咬苹果”。苹果或者悬挂在空中,或者飘浮在装满水的盆子里,孩子们则在不许用手帮忙的条件下用嘴去咬苹果,谁先咬到,谁就是优胜者。这个万圣节传统节目大概可以追溯到罗马人用果仁和苹果来庆祝丰收的习俗。万圣节令人眼花缭乱的装饰物品中,最有创意的要数万圣节南瓜灯。万圣节南瓜灯英文里叫作Jack-O’-Lantern。制作时把南瓜掏空,用刀刻出眼睛嘴巴,里面插一根蜡烛,形像要狰狞些才好。万圣节关于南瓜灯的传说有很多版本,以“骗魔鬼变六便士”的万圣节说法最为流行。万圣节其中有不少是这样开头的:传说爱尔兰有一个名叫StingyJack的男子……。其实,“astingydrunkardJack”本来应该译作“一个吝啬的酒鬼杰克”,却被原译者疏忽为“一个名叫StingyJack的男子”。后来以讹传讹,Stingy竟成了Jack甩不掉的名字。万圣节另有一个“苹果树”版本也很著名:吝啬的爱尔兰酒鬼JACK骗魔鬼爬进了苹果树的树洞,然后迅速在树干上刻了一个神圣的十字,困住了魔鬼。JACK逼着魔鬼起誓永远不再追索、或以任何其它方式谋取他的灵魂,才把魔鬼放了出去。然而这却挡不住死亡的来临。JACK死后,由于酗酒、吝啬和欺诈,他未被允许进入天堂。而由于魔鬼的誓言,JACK也不能进入地狱。“那么我去哪里呢?”JACK不知所措地问。“哪儿来的回哪儿去!”魔鬼恶狠狠地回答。回去的路冷风四起,黑暗无边。魔鬼从地狱之火拣了一块烧得通红的火炭扔给他。为了照路又不被风吹灭,JACK将火炭放进了他手里拿着的大头菜中。JACK就这样举着他的“灯笼”寻找自己在地球上的存身之处。后来苏格兰人在万圣节中模仿他,挖空大头菜,放入蜡烛做灯笼;在万圣节爱尔兰人用的是土豆或大头菜;而在万圣节英格兰人则用甜菜。后来他们移民到美国,发现了一个更好用的灯笼——万圣节南瓜灯!这个万圣节故事其实是在告诉人们,无论什么情形,都不要和魔鬼做交易。
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