Subject: Can you find any information about a plant called 'John O'Dreams'?

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You Call It Hallowe'en... We Call It Samhain
by Peg Aloi



But such folk names were commonly given to nature spirits, like the "Jack in 
the Green," or to plants believed to possess magical properties, like "John O' 
Dreams," or "Jack in the Pulpit." Irish fairy lore is full of such references. 
Since candles placed in hollowed-out pumpkins or turnips (commonly grown for 
food and abundant at this time of year) would produce flickering flames, 
especially on cold nights in October, this phenomenon may have led to the 
association of spirits with the lanterns; and this in turn may have led to the 
tradition of carving scary faces on them. It is an old legend that candle 
flames which flicker on Samhain night are being touched by the spirits of dead 
ancestors, or "ghosts."
 

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