Tea Party Ghosts
A group of Dickensesque ghosts gather around a hearse stuck in the mud, enjoying a spot of tea. A short ghost with a large hook nose (bearing a passing resemblance to Jimmy Durante) sits upright in the coffin that has slipped out of the hearse. Early documentation and the Story and Song From The Haunted Mansion album described a shrouded corpse, rather than a ghost, sitting in the coffin and sipping tea. Opposite this character, a ghost sits on a rock with his legs crossed and teacup in hand. He was dressed in medieval garb in Marc Davis' original concept art, but the current figure in the Disneyland Mansion wears 19th century attire. The character at Walt Disney World, who retains his original costume, has been (possibly erroneously) referred to as "The Sea Captain" by Imagineers Tony Baxter and Jason Surrell.
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Famous quotes containing the words tea, party and/or ghosts:
“It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.”
—Agnes Repplier (1858–1950)
“A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There were ghosts that returned to earth to hear his phrases,
As he sat there reading, aloud, the great blue tabulae.
They were those from the wilderness of stars that had expected more.
There were those that returned to hear him read from the poem of life,
Of the pans above the stove, the pots on the table, the tulips among them.
They were those that would have wept to step barefoot into reality....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)