What is The Great Pumpkin?
The Great Pumpkin is is a holiday figure (comparable to Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny), however must older.
Most experts believe that The Great Pumpkin is timeless, however a few others think it's only as old as the univerise.
When can it be seen?
Every year, on a single night of the year, on All-hallow's eve, which is also the Lemuria festival, on that night and that night alone, if you are sitting in a pumpkin patch, you might see The Great Pumpkin.
It's been reported that it's been seen by a dog, however that report remains unconfirmed.
Some helpfuly hints, why?
According to on believer, when writing to the Great Pumpkin, you don't ask him to bring you anything specific: you wait for whatever he brings you. In this way, the believer states a difference between The Great Pumpkin and Santa Claus (children writing to Santa include in their letters lists of exactly what they want). Also, the believer states that Santa gives away toys because it's his job and it's expected of him, whereas The Great Pumpkin gives away toys because he feels he is fulfilling a moral obligation.