Blackness hung over our heads like a witch's cloak.
Lucy likens the darkness inside the Fittes mausoleum to a witch’s cloak. Lucy says, "Our lanterns flickered. Blackness hung over our heads like a witch's cloak." The simile shows the looming danger for the physic investigators inside the mausoleum. Lucy and her fellow investigators want to locate the trap door to access Marisa's corpse. However, the task is difficult because the trap door cannot be located using physical eyes. In addition, the place is very dark due to the lack of windows and lighting.
The jar
The jar is a metaphor in the novel, which represents a prison. Throughout the novel, the skull is kept inside the jar, where it cannot move. Therefore, the skull considers the jar a jail because its freedom is curtailed. When Quill talks ill of the skull, it replies, "Tell that boggle-eyed fool that if I were out of this prison, I'd suck the flesh off his bones and dance the hornpipe with his empty skin." The metaphor shows that Lucy controls the skull, and no one can hear the skull speaking except Lucy.
Grasshopper
The bulbous goggles Quill uses in his investigative job are compared to the grasshopper's compound eyes. The narrator says, “He had an enormous pair of bulbous goggles clamped across his face, giving him the look of a startled grasshopper.” The grasshopper rarely blinks, and its compound eyes are always focused. Similarly, Quill uses the goggles to augment his eyes when looking for ghosts. While inside the Fittess Mausoleum, Quill uses bulbous goggles to locate the trap door.
