Picture credits

Our own drawings

• A drawing of a carved turnip lantern glowing at night under a full moon. Labels point to the lid with a hollow stalk, the chimney; the carved design, which can be faces, Peel Castle, witches and Manx cats; the tea light inside, or a torch today; and the turnip itself, a moot, Manx for turnip.
  Our own drawing
• Three calendar cards side by side. 31 October: All Hallows’ Eve, Halloween and Hop tu Naa. 1 November: All Saints’ Day, also called All Hallows’ Day. 2 November: All Souls’ Day, remembering the dead. A note says Samhain was kept on 31 October or 1 November.
  Our own drawing
• A rough sketch map of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Ireland is labelled Samhain, Scotland Samhainn, said Sa-wayne, and the Isle of Man Sauin.
  Our own drawing
• Three glowing turnip lanterns at night, carved with a scary face, with Peel Castle and with a Manx cat under a moon.
  Our own drawing
• A carved turnip lantern on the left and a carved orange pumpkin on the right, with an arrow between them. The turnip is labelled Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man; the pumpkin is labelled the American version.
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The drawings are simplified teaching drawings, not to scale, made from the sourced descriptions on this site. Useless the eraser is the network’s own mascot. Fonts: Bricolage Grotesque, Newsreader and Kalam (SIL Open Font Licence), served from this site.