the supernatural

• "It was a strange figure -- like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man"
• it wore a tunic of the purest white
• it waist was bound with a lustrous belt
• its dress trimmed with summer flowers
• it held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand
• sprang a bright clear jet of light
• a great extinguisher for the cap
• kind throne there were turkeys,geese,game,poultry brawn,great joints of meat ...
• there sat a jolly giant
• who bore a glowing torch
• green robe .... bordered with white fur
• on its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath
• .... there with shiny icicles
• genial face
• sparkling eye
• antique scabbard but with no sword was in it
• ghostly eyes fixed upon him
• spectral hand and one great heap of black
• a great fat man with a monstrous chin
• pendulous excrescence on the end of his nose ...
• that shook like the gills of a turkey-cock