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how does dickens present the supernatrual in this extract ?: it was a strange figure like a child yet not so like a child as like an old man viewed through some supernatural medium which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view being diminished to a childs proportions. its hair which hung about its neck and down its back was white as if with age and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it and the tenderest bloom was on the skin the arms were very long and muscular the hands the same as if its hold were of uncommon strength its legs and feet most delicatley formed were like those upper members bare. it wore a tunic of the purest white and round its waist bound a lustrous belt the sheen of which was beautiful. it held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand and in singular contridiction of that wintry emblem had its dress trimmed with summer flowers. but the strangest thing about it was that from the crown of its head sprung a bright clear jet of light by which all this was visible and which was doubtless the occasion of its using In its duller moments a great extinguisher for a cap which it now held under its arm