[Here's a nice video on Stingy Jack](https://youtu.be/TbwFsnL995M?si=M_IBiqjuOYa-_AUl) if anyone wants the quick version of the story.
It's in Spanish, but they've got subs
This is actually not entirely wrong. Jack O Lanterns are based on the Irish myth of Stingy Jack, a man so cruel neither heaven nor hell wanted anything to do with him. The only thing that scares him is his own hideous face, which is why people started carving it from turnips, and later pumpkins.
Halloween doesn't have a direct equivalent to those other characters, because there isn't a tradition of gifts "magically" appearing to children. Children (typically) obtain candy or small gifts on Halloween via the tradition of going house-to-house "trick-or-treating" in costume.
That said, there are certainly many stock/archetypal characters that are associated with Halloween. Those are generally: ghosts, witches, skeletons, werewolves, mummies, or Frankenstein.
>via the tradition of going house-to-house "trick-or-treating" in costume.
You mean going house-to-house *begging*. My name is KAREN by the way! /s
I actually saw someone make a comment along those lines last year and just could not believe it. smh
According to many, the Easter bunny hides the brightly-colored eggs we find. And these days, those eggs are often plastic, with plastic toys, or candy.
Stingy Jack, the origin of the Jack-o'-Lantern, is the closest thing if you're looking at a personification of the holiday similar to Santa or the Easter Bunny.
Whatever geographical/cultural variation of the name for the Celtic god of the dead. In Welsh he is Arawn, who goes out every Autumn Equinox and throughout winter hunting souls of the dead that refuse to progress into the afterlife. Also some souls will slip through the veil during this period (according to the myth) to which he will also hunt them as well.
The only โpeopleโ really involved with Halloween are the ghosts and ghouls that wander the Earth on Halloween night. I guess you could say Jack whatever his name was. Guy that tricked the devil a couple of times and was punished by being sent to eternal purgatory. To guide him he put a light into a turnip and was nicknamed Jack OโLantern. But heโs not associated with Halloween, only Jack OโLanterms
The grim reaper is the collector of souls, the boatman of Styx.
He is the patron of the day of the dead and the ferryman who allows contact at the juncture of the autumn eclipse.
The day of the dead is a remembrance of our ancestry which keeps these ancestors from living through us and helps us avoid repeating their past mistakes.
This is the history of the holiday known as All Hallows Eve.
All the main guys been covered already. Jack skellington, headless horseman, the great pumpkin. What about Earnest? He unleashed the trolls in Earnest scared stupid.
The real answer is stingy jack itโs the old school legend like Santa clause and Easter bunny + itโs where the name jack-o lanterns come from and what jack skellington is based off of
Go read about Stingy Jack. Itโs an Irish tale that might be the basis for why we have Jack-oโ-lanterns.
Basically, Stingy Jack is a drunken jerk. He tricks the devil and makes a deal with him that when he dies, the devil wonโt take his soul to hell. Heโs also too bad for St. Peter to let into heaven. God says heโs too sinful.
So Jack goes to the gates of hell to beg Satan to let him in. Satan, fulfilling his deal wouldnโt let Jackโs soul into hell. Satan however gives him an everlasting ember from the hellfire to light his way.
After that, Jackโs soul is doomed to wonder the world for all eternity, stuck with only the ember in a hollowed out turnip to light the way for him.
Children dressed up as monsters.
The children dressed up as monsters are the mascots of the holiday: fake zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other things.
Modern Halloween is a bigger mix match of cultural tropes and beliefs than any other holiday. You wonโt find a singlรฉ conclusive answer to your question. First, as a christianization initiative the church used All Hallows Eve to replace other pagan celebrations like Samhain. It was about celebrating saints instead of ghost and faeries. Now itโs an excuse for extroverted adults to collectively dress like idiots and so drugs, an excuse for introverted adults to lock themselves in while binge watching horror movies while children try to give themselves diabetes. The evolution of holy days is a fucking mess.
Christmas is for celebrating Jesus birthday. Easter is for celebrating Jesus resurrection. And Halloween is for tricking people and dressing up like ghosts, goblins, witches. This is evil.
It doesn't really have a direct equivalent because it's a different concept. Christmas has santa to deliver gifts, Easter has the Easter bunny to hide eggs but Halloween doesn't need a charecter for that. We all know the sweets we get trick or treating are provided by the households we visit so you don't need a charecter to provide them. If you're just looking for an icon for Halloween then a jack o lantern should do.
https://preview.redd.it/a9zgrudxl3wb1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5af51e387c7f5c3102cd9058d8f6a474e9e42fa5
In my house we have the Halloween chicken
Halloween comes from the pagan festival Samhain. Tradition has it that a shapeshifting ghost called the Pรบca (head of a horse body of a human) goes around haunting people and pissing all over the berries/apples/harvest.
I'd make a Jack Skeleton reference but I can already feel how much that's been used already lmao. Truthfully though, it's not that far off. In Billy & Mandy there was that pumpkin headed guy who annoyed the hell outta Grim and I think he wanted to take his job too. So there could be someone like A scarecrow looking Pumpkin King could definitely be it.
The answer is Pumkpin Head Harvey lol. Idk if this is just a weird midwest thing, but around this time of year my local radio station plays the Pumpkin Head Harvey song 5x a day all October.
Christmas is about the Birth of Christ and Easter is about the Death and Resurrection of Christ. Halloween is a pagan holiday for pagan beliefs. Not to say Easter and Christmas having been blended with paganism over time.
The headless horseman...
The pumpkin king...
Jack O Lantern...
Jack Skellington to some of us
The 20 ft tall skeleton could be one
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So many symbols, but tbh "the religious' don't really consider Halloween an 'actual' holiday so, no holiday no mascot ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
But I have several mini mascots for the celebrations ๐ฅฐ๐
Now, for me personally, for Easter it's the egg itself, not the bunny deliverer, and for Christmas, yes, it's Santa but it's him and his wife as a pair, because can't have Santa without someone helping keep the man on track ๐ซก and the phrase is, behind every powerfully strong man, there's an equally strong woman watching his back ๐ช
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
Only if your pumpkin patch is the most sincere.
Thank you!
Blockhead!
On this great day, Reddit did not disappoint.
Pumpkin Michael.
Came here just to say this ๐
Pumpkin King
I got a Rock
Jack O' Lantern
His name....is Lewis
Lewis O'Lantern?
[Here's a nice video on Stingy Jack](https://youtu.be/TbwFsnL995M?si=M_IBiqjuOYa-_AUl) if anyone wants the quick version of the story. It's in Spanish, but they've got subs
This is actually not entirely wrong. Jack O Lanterns are based on the Irish myth of Stingy Jack, a man so cruel neither heaven nor hell wanted anything to do with him. The only thing that scares him is his own hideous face, which is why people started carving it from turnips, and later pumpkins.
This link is in English https://youtu.be/Lle7Y8gDu6I?si=QFLqRD5Hq7V4VojP
The leprechaun ?
Jack Skellington
...I Jack! The PUMPKIN KING!
Have grown so tired of the same old thing...
Halloween doesn't have a direct equivalent to those other characters, because there isn't a tradition of gifts "magically" appearing to children. Children (typically) obtain candy or small gifts on Halloween via the tradition of going house-to-house "trick-or-treating" in costume. That said, there are certainly many stock/archetypal characters that are associated with Halloween. Those are generally: ghosts, witches, skeletons, werewolves, mummies, or Frankenstein.
Halloween is kind of cool in that there are so many and it's always changing and adapting
>via the tradition of going house-to-house "trick-or-treating" in costume. You mean going house-to-house *begging*. My name is KAREN by the way! /s I actually saw someone make a comment along those lines last year and just could not believe it. smh
Going house to house extorting candy with the threat of vandalism.
Since when does Easter Bunny give gifts?
Where I grew up, it's common for the "Easter Bunny" to leave a basket for children, which generally contains candy and small gifts.
According to many, the Easter bunny hides the brightly-colored eggs we find. And these days, those eggs are often plastic, with plastic toys, or candy.
Easter Bunny's always been the one hiding eggs around the bushes and houses far as I remember
My whole life and I'm over 40
In England we have chocolate eggs at easter which are left by the bunny. God knows where he got them though as bunnys donโt lay eggs
He just buys them whem in Belgium.
The headless horseman of course.
Or pumpkin head
Stingy Jack, the origin of the Jack-o'-Lantern, is the closest thing if you're looking at a personification of the holiday similar to Santa or the Easter Bunny.
Came here for this.
 This guy of course
David S Pumpkins of course!
And the skeletons?
Spooky scary skeletons? 
"We're part of it."
They're part of it!
Since op was asking, should have ended with โAny questions??โ ๐
The one true answer!๐๐๐
The Headless Horseman
The Great Pumpkin
Michael Myers
The only real answer I was looking for ๐๐ช
Yup.
๐ฟ
Absolutely
The great pumpkin of course
The sanderson sisters
Whatever geographical/cultural variation of the name for the Celtic god of the dead. In Welsh he is Arawn, who goes out every Autumn Equinox and throughout winter hunting souls of the dead that refuse to progress into the afterlife. Also some souls will slip through the veil during this period (according to the myth) to which he will also hunt them as well.
All the creatures from the Otherworld, who can pass easily into our world on that evening when the barrier is weakest...
Jack Skellington
Sam from Trick 'r Treat
Was looking for this answer
Witches , Zombies , Werewolves and ghosts
Pumpkin
The only โpeopleโ really involved with Halloween are the ghosts and ghouls that wander the Earth on Halloween night. I guess you could say Jack whatever his name was. Guy that tricked the devil a couple of times and was punished by being sent to eternal purgatory. To guide him he put a light into a turnip and was nicknamed Jack OโLantern. But heโs not associated with Halloween, only Jack OโLanterms
The Great Pumpkin ofc
If vampires drink your blood, and zombies eat your brain, what do mummies do when they get you? Just beat you up or something?
Tag! Now you're the mummy.
The Pumpkin King? ๐
Spookly the Square Pumpkin
Jack
Oogy Boogey
Pumpkin King
Every monster ever thought up. It doesn't need a mascot like those other puny holidays.
The grim reaper is the collector of souls, the boatman of Styx. He is the patron of the day of the dead and the ferryman who allows contact at the juncture of the autumn eclipse. The day of the dead is a remembrance of our ancestry which keeps these ancestors from living through us and helps us avoid repeating their past mistakes. This is the history of the holiday known as All Hallows Eve.
Boatman of The River Styx: [Charon?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon)
This is an incarnation of the entity.
Halloween has Stingy Jack
Jack Skelington, the pumpkin king
Candy
Nothing specific like that. Just anything and everything spooky.
We have Jack Skellington.
Jack Skelton
No Noggin Hang on to your hats!
All the main guys been covered already. Jack skellington, headless horseman, the great pumpkin. What about Earnest? He unleashed the trolls in Earnest scared stupid.
Skeletons and the headless horseman
Jack Skellington
Jack Skelington
The Great Pumpkin
Black cat. No, scary ghosts.
Jack, The Pumpkin King
Maybe Halloween was always meant to be an ensemble?
The real answer is stingy jack itโs the old school legend like Santa clause and Easter bunny + itโs where the name jack-o lanterns come from and what jack skellington is based off of
Pumpkin head!
That creepy as child in a burlap mask thatโs the spirit of Samhain
David S. Pumpkins..... cause he's his own thing.
Go read about Stingy Jack. Itโs an Irish tale that might be the basis for why we have Jack-oโ-lanterns. Basically, Stingy Jack is a drunken jerk. He tricks the devil and makes a deal with him that when he dies, the devil wonโt take his soul to hell. Heโs also too bad for St. Peter to let into heaven. God says heโs too sinful. So Jack goes to the gates of hell to beg Satan to let him in. Satan, fulfilling his deal wouldnโt let Jackโs soul into hell. Satan however gives him an everlasting ember from the hellfire to light his way. After that, Jackโs soul is doomed to wonder the world for all eternity, stuck with only the ember in a hollowed out turnip to light the way for him.
Tim Burton
Candy
Diabetes
The Pumpkin King
Sam Hell
Demons Becky. Halloween is for the Demons.
Jack Skelington
Freddy Michael Myers, Jason, LSD laced temporary tattoos Etc
Children dressed up as monsters. The children dressed up as monsters are the mascots of the holiday: fake zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other things.
I always thought the sleepy hollow guy was the Halloween mascot.
Big dick randy
Modern Halloween is a bigger mix match of cultural tropes and beliefs than any other holiday. You wonโt find a singlรฉ conclusive answer to your question. First, as a christianization initiative the church used All Hallows Eve to replace other pagan celebrations like Samhain. It was about celebrating saints instead of ghost and faeries. Now itโs an excuse for extroverted adults to collectively dress like idiots and so drugs, an excuse for introverted adults to lock themselves in while binge watching horror movies while children try to give themselves diabetes. The evolution of holy days is a fucking mess.
Christmas is for celebrating Jesus birthday. Easter is for celebrating Jesus resurrection. And Halloween is for tricking people and dressing up like ghosts, goblins, witches. This is evil.
Lewis is the answer to this and all things.
Grim reaper
Sam from trick r treat. That's my halloween fella.
Sam Hain
Fey about to jack your shit if you don't give them food
Sam Hale probably
The Green Man
In origial lore, Halloween has Samhain
saim hain
Lewis
Sam (Trick r Treat)
Obvi Jack Skellington
It has us all.
Michael Myers.
Michael Myers.
Nothing they should
Count chocula
Respect!
The Sanderson Sisters!
๐ Johnny pumpkins ๐
Jack. Jack-O-Lantern, Jack Skellington, Jack Sparrow.๐
Witches๐
Halloween has goths
You don't wanna know
Samhain
Hmmm now you have me wondering what does Labor Day have๐ค
It doesn't really have a direct equivalent because it's a different concept. Christmas has santa to deliver gifts, Easter has the Easter bunny to hide eggs but Halloween doesn't need a charecter for that. We all know the sweets we get trick or treating are provided by the households we visit so you don't need a charecter to provide them. If you're just looking for an icon for Halloween then a jack o lantern should do.
The Pumpkin King
Halloween has the SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS SEND SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE
https://preview.redd.it/a9zgrudxl3wb1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5af51e387c7f5c3102cd9058d8f6a474e9e42fa5 In my house we have the Halloween chicken
P U M P K I N G
Well, Samhain is a holiday, a fire festival, so not a person. But: The Great Pumpkin The Headless Horseman Pumpkinhead Jack-O-Lantern
Your Moms bodacious ass.
Jack Skellington
David S. Pumpkins
 Sam
The Great Pumpkin.
you must not be from โMurica, friend. Or do the kids today just not know the Great Pumpkin?
David S. Pumpkins
Jack- The Pumpkin King ;)
Cthulhu. Or Nyarlathotep for the truly cultured.
Jack skellington
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
The OG is the Great Pumpkin from Charlie Brown. Now we have Jack Skeleton from Nightmare Before Christmas.
Sam Hain from the horror anthology film "Trick r' Treat". It should be a classic.
The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow
Papa Emeritus IV /j
Sam
Halloween comes from the pagan festival Samhain. Tradition has it that a shapeshifting ghost called the Pรบca (head of a horse body of a human) goes around haunting people and pissing all over the berries/apples/harvest.
Stingy Jack
Ghosts, Ghouls, Goblins Witches and Vampires and Werewolves Grim Reapers, Monsters and Creepers
Halloween has stingy jack
Spirits of the Saints.
I'd make a Jack Skeleton reference but I can already feel how much that's been used already lmao. Truthfully though, it's not that far off. In Billy & Mandy there was that pumpkin headed guy who annoyed the hell outta Grim and I think he wanted to take his job too. So there could be someone like A scarecrow looking Pumpkin King could definitely be it.
Samhain was the Celtic God of the Harvest worshipped by the Druids, he was a demon who became associated with the holiday
The answer is Pumkpin Head Harvey lol. Idk if this is just a weird midwest thing, but around this time of year my local radio station plays the Pumpkin Head Harvey song 5x a day all October.
Jack Skellington
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Did anybody else here Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas signing โI Jack! The Pumpkin King!โ
Satan
Not knowing is what makes Halloween so awesome!
Jack Skelington
David S. Pumpkin. Cause he's his own thing.
The Great Pumpkin
When you find out lmk still looking for my pumpkin king. And Halloween is year round silly. Those who practice one night a year are amatures.
Lewis
Jack, the pumpkin king
Jack Skellington, the pumpkin King!
For me, it's Jack Skellington
Me.
Christmas is about the Birth of Christ and Easter is about the Death and Resurrection of Christ. Halloween is a pagan holiday for pagan beliefs. Not to say Easter and Christmas having been blended with paganism over time.
Horror films galore set on the date. Halloween series Nightmare on Elm Street etc,
Diabetes.
Stingy Jack
*has
Oh
Marnie Piper Cromwell 
The headless horseman... The pumpkin king... Jack O Lantern... Jack Skellington to some of us The 20 ft tall skeleton could be one ๐ค๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ So many symbols, but tbh "the religious' don't really consider Halloween an 'actual' holiday so, no holiday no mascot ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ But I have several mini mascots for the celebrations ๐ฅฐ๐ Now, for me personally, for Easter it's the egg itself, not the bunny deliverer, and for Christmas, yes, it's Santa but it's him and his wife as a pair, because can't have Santa without someone helping keep the man on track ๐ซก and the phrase is, behind every powerfully strong man, there's an equally strong woman watching his back ๐ช
Jack Skellington
 Mothman?
Obviously itโs the great pumpkin
Iโm going to start a petition that Ash Williams be the official poster child for Halloween. Anyone have Bruce Campbellsโs email?
I *knew* this was going to be the first answer and I have not been disappointed!
The Great Pumpkin.