Let the earth hide thee!"
In a work named for this type of figure, the Old Man says, "In silence, you cannot hide anything." That Old Man befriends Mr. Arkenholz and is named Jacob Hummel. In another work named for these figures, Regina Engstrand is Oswald's half-sister and Helene Alving builds an orphanage. One of these figures sits in a chair at a dinner party, causing the protagonist to command, (*) "Quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!" Marley is one of these figures, and examples of them show a man scenes of Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim on Christmas. Including one which was once Banquo and ones which appear to Scrooge, for 10 points, name these supernatural beings thought to represent the dead.
In a work named for this type of figure, the Old Man says, "In silence, you cannot hide anything."
ghosts [accept specters and other synonyms; generously accept The Ghost Sonata, Banquo’s ghost, The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, or the Ghosts of Christmas; prompt on the dead or souls; do not accept or prompt on “corpses” or “dead bodies”] &lt;CL&gt;