Pumpkins, as a design element

Pumpkins, as a design element

Whether a pumpkin as an element of registration you Wish to decorate simply the house with gifts of autumn or prepare for a holiday a Halloween,
Pumpkins with unusual drawing become your highlight.

That for this purpose it is necessary for you:
- A pumpkin of the average size;
- A sharp knife;
- The table spoon to remove seeds;
- An electric drill with different drills;
- White or colour labels.

How to do
1. By means of a knife cut in the basis of a pumpkin an aperture.
2. Remove all seeds and pulp
3. By means of labels create on a pumpkin drawing which you would like to receive.
4. After you are defined with drawing, it is possible to start drilling of holes. Use drills of the various sizes, for example, 8 mm, 12мм and 22 mm.
5. It is possible to illuminate a pumpkin from within by means of a small candle.
6. Attention: Never leave the lighted candle without supervision.

Symbol of a Halloween!

Pumpkin - the main symbol of a Halloween (or Day of all sacred, it is celebrated on November, 1st). Why a pumpkin and what for on her cut out brutal muzzles?

The tradition to cut out lanterns from vegetables has come from Ireland and the Great Britain and originates in days of celtics of monks - druids whom these of an ominous kind used lanterns for exile of demons and malicious spirits. Usually lanterns were cut out from turnip, a beet and a swede, and till 19 centuries at all had no attitude to day of all sacred. Custom to cut out a pumpkin on a Halloween has come from Northern America where the pumpkin associated with a season of harvesting. The American lantern from a pumpkin Jack-lantern (Jack-O-Lantern) has received the name and became an official symbol of a Halloween in 1866.


Who such Jack-lantern?

The spark of a pumpkin flickering in darkness symbolizes souls died, wandering between heavens and underworld.

The legend says, that one careless farmer, the drunkard and pilferer Jack is no time veins. Once Jack escaped from the annoyed peasants, which he steal. And here on a way to him the devil, declared to Jack that hour of its death has come has met. Artful Jack has persuaded a devil to delay death instead of an opportunity to bewitch the just peasants pursued the thief. It has suggested a devil to turn to a coin with which Jack will pay off for the stolen things and when the devil/coin will disappear peasants will fight with each other, finding out who has stolen it. The devil has agreed and, having turned to a silver coin, has jumped to Jack in a pocket. But has been there and then deprived the magical force as it has appeared near to a cross, which Jack has stolen in village. Jack promised to release a devil if that will promise to not take away to his shower in a hell.

Who such Jack-lantern Jack-O-Lantern
When time of death has come, Jack could not get on heavens because of the sinful life, but also in a hell him have not started up, as promised. It was around dark also to Jack there was no place to go. he has asked a lantern, and the devil has derisively thrown to him decaying pieces of coal from infernal baked. Jack cut out a lantern from a pumpkin, has put in her pieces of coal and began to wander by the ground in searches of rest. And began to name it ' Jack of the Lantern '

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Pumpkin amulet

Pumpkin amulet
This pumpkin possesses first of all strong therapeutic properties. The pumpkin should be suspended above a bed of the patient, in case of heavy and long illness - in a headboard. Additional effect of application bronze pumpkin - amplification of love feelings. If spouses grow cold to each other, it is possible to place such pumpkin in a bedroom, and it will lead to amplification of feelings between them.

pumpkin also harmonizes relations between children and adults. Protective and medical action is peculiar for any pumpkin, irrespective of a material of which she is made.

Use the pumpkins dried up in the certain way or made of a tree (it is traditional - from a cypress, ebony a tree), ceramics, etc. On a pumpkin represent hieroglyphs of the big success, the Chinese coin of happiness and various gods.


The legend says

The fruit of a pumpkin earlier was widely used as capacity for transferring waters. Clean water, suitable for drink, was the value, therefore the given kind of a pumpkin became amulets to helping people. considered, that the pumpkin collects in itself health, accumulates him and does not allow him to dissipate. The range of application of it{this} amulet is very wide, as health for the person is the most important. If in the house there is a patient, the pumpkin is capable abhorrence action of malicious forces, to improve a sincere condition and mood. Salutarily acts on health pumpkin with the image of a dragon, as a dragon - a symbol of success and happy changes. And for the ill person happy changes is a recover. Removes illnesses pumpkin with disseminating tubules which hang up above a workplace or, on the contrary, above vacation spot.


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Lanterns from pumpkins

Useful councils

To put a pumpkin on some sheets of a paper, not so to litter. To cut off a cover of a pumpkin there where there is a fruit stem. Use a sharp long knife.



cut "covers" under a corner will not allow her to fail then in the cut out pumpkin.



Be convinced, that a hole which you cut out, enough big that it was possible to push a hand, and clear a pumpkin of seeds and fibres.



Survey the pumpkin to find where better to cut out the face. Draw a desirable pattern (even not necessarily features) on a white paper and attach its adhesive tape on a pumpkin where you will cut out a pattern. Take the big nail and pierce a paper and a peel of a pumpkin on a contour.



Sharp knife cut out the pattern on apertures. Squeeze out pieces.


The finished lantern. Now inside it is possible to put a candle.

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Halloween - night of all sacred

The holiday-horror film, actually completely not terrible, and more likely, cheerful and amusing, is the old tradition for some time almost forgotten, and then revived in XIX-th century in the USA.

Historians see roots today's Halloween in ancient celtic celebrating. According to national folklore, this day it is necessary to bridle malicious fairies and to forecast the future for what celtic people used improvised means - nuts and apples. Some Christian researchers attribute to a holiday "devilish" features. However documentary confirmations to that celtic people were engaged in sacrifices, no.

Most likely, far descendants celtic peoples - Irish which mass emigration in the USA happened in XIX-th century, have brought with themselves this tradition on the new native land. In the USA have thought up produce small lamps from pumpkins in the form of a human head - on historical data, these vegetables in the Europe in an antiquity did not grow up. But there were others which peel, for the lack of other material, people used for the device of fixtures.

Halloween has quickly collected popularity, already in beginning XX of a century Europeans with cheerful pleasure began to dress up in all red and black on the eve of Day of All Sacred to amuse each other and at the same time, probably, to get rid, "be cleared" of last year's fears - similarly to ancient celtic people which year began just on November, 1st.


From all modern holidays and significant dates Halloween, perhaps, the most eclectic. It is a unimaginable mosaic of superstitions, folklore, cultural traditions of the different countries. In its carrying out there are no rigid rules, let alone any canon or ritual.

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