Talk:Stingy Jack

Validity of this item
This item should be either heavily edited or categorised as a fairy tale or similar. If this tale has any relevance to Jack o Lantern it must surely be only on a regional basis. Perhaps the fact that this Irish legend has an English title, gives away how recent it is. It seems to be one of a group of tricking the devil style tales that have emerged as fairy tale explanations of what are possibly pagan names or events. --Attatatta (talk) 00:25, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

The claim in the story section that this is a popular 18th century Irish folktale ("Then there’s the 18th-century Irish folktale of Stingy Jack, ... Dozens of versions abound, but one recurring storyline is that Stingy Jack tricked the devil twice") seems to come from the single source. Where is the evidence for that claim ? The National Geographic article potentially implies that the tale is from "Nathan Mannion, senior curator for EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, in Dublin", or perhaps comes from an exhibit there? I haven't seen any versions of tale citing an early published work where the story in that form has been collected; and from the versions I have so far read of the story in the Irish Schools collection tagged as tale type AT0330A The Smith and the Devil, I haven't seen a trace of it there? Tony Hirst (talk) 08:16, 3 October 2023 (UTC)