It's that time of year...but what does the folklore say? Do you know any good legends, stories, anything, about halloween?

I found this about Jack'o'Lantern:

There was a stingy drunkard of an Irishman named Jack; who tricked the Devil into climbing an apple tree. Then Jack quickly cut the sign of a cross into the trunk of the tree; thereby preventing the Devil from climbing down. Jack made the Devil swear that he wouldn't ever come after Jack's soul again or claim it in any way.

However, this did not stop Jack from dying and when he did he was not allowed into Heaven, because of his life of drinking, being tightfisted and being deceitful. And because of the oath the Devil had taken Jack was not allowed into Hell either. "But where can I go?" asked Jack. "Back where you came from!" replied the Devil. The way back was windy and dark. The Devil, as a final gesture, threw a live coal at Jack straight from the fire of Hell. To light his way and to keep it from blowing out in the wind Jack put it in a turnip he was eating.

Ever since Jack and his "lantern" has been traveling over the face of the earth looking for a place to rest.

I remember a story like that when I was younger about the wandering "Jack" of halloween. but it was different. The man was a cooper "barrel maker" who was a rude uncouthed man so the devil thinking he was an easy target sent demons after the man but he would smash the imps with his hammer and even nail theior wings together. He had some magic power apparently but as long as he lived he was able to see demons and would do what he could to torment demons but not to be nice or help his fellow man but rather because he enjoyed it. When he died the he couldn't go to hell becuase he hadn't commited any sins against God. But he wasn't allowed into heaven because he was a nasty man that enjoyed tormenting other things "demons or not he still enjoyed it" so he was forced to walk the earth carrying a ghost lantern.

The actual origen of Jack O' Lanterns is that Druids and other "pagan" groups would carve symbols and faces into pumpkins and/or other gords than place candles in them as wards againt evil spirits.

The Dancing Ghost

This story has many of the classic elements. It takes place in Tompkinsville, Kentucky. Two young men are on their way to a dance when they spot a girl their age walking along the road in a party dress. They stop and ask if she'd like to attend the dance with them. She accepts and spends the evening dancing with them. When the dance is finished, the young men offer to take her home and she insists they drop her off at a certain spot. They agree, and since it is raining, one of the boys gives her his coat, saying he will pick it up from her later. As she requests, they drop her off at a house on Meshack Road. A few days later, the boy returns to the house to retrieve his coat... but is told by the woman at the house that the girl he describes sounds like her daughter, who died in an accident on that road. When the boy visits her grave at the cemetery, his coat is laying beside her tombstone.