A flaming Tourch
The ghost pg Christmas past carried a candle extinguisher
In "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, Scrooge was able to travel with the spirit by holding onto the spirit's robe or hand. This physical connection allowed Scrooge to be transported to different places and times by the spirit.
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come takes the form of a grim spectre, robed in black, who does not speak and whose body is entirely hidden except for one pointing hand. This spirit frightens Scrooge more than the others, and harrows him with a vision of a future Christmas with the Cratchit family bereft of Tiny Tim. A rich miser, whose death saddens nobody and whose home and corpse have been robbed by ghoulish attendants, is revealed to be Scrooge himself: this is the fate that awaits him. Without it explicitly being said, Scrooge learns that he can avoid the future he has been shown and alter the fate of Tiny Tim, but only if he changes. Weeping, he swears to do so, and awakes to find that all three spirits have visited in just one night, and that it is the Christmas morning.
I didn't think the Spirit looked strange at all. Given the non-existent graphic capabilities at the time the movie produced, it wasn't possible to make the spirit more 'ghostly' looking or transparent.
I think that Scrooge wrings his hand about 5-10 times over the course of A Christmas Carol, however, it differs with what version of 'A Christmas Carol' you are talking about, as there are multiple versions.
When the book was written it was written in hand writing by Charles Dickens
The Ghost of Christmas Present is a plump, tall, joyful man who carries a torch with him. He is supposed to represent how Christmas is a time of goodness and cheer. When he sprinkles ashes from his torch onto people, they immediately become happy and cheerful. The Ghost of Christmas Past shows how Christmas is a time when everybody gets together and becomes thankful for each other; that they still are alive and that they have a happy life with a good family and money in their pockets.
Dickens describes the attire of the Ghost of C'mas Yet to Be thus: It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible, save one outstretched hand.
It was clothed in one simple green robe, or mantle, bordered with white fur. This garment hung so loosely on the figure, that its capacious breast was bare, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any artifice. Its feet, observable beneath the ample folds of the garment, were also bare; and on its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath, set here and there with shining icicles. Its dark brown curls were long and free: free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air. Girded round its middle was an antique scabbard; but no sword was in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten up with rust.
There is no Ghost Pokémon that can learn Helping Hand.
Dickens describes the Ghost of Christmas Past as "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, and being diminished to a child's 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 delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare. It wore a tunic of the purest white and round its waist was bound a lustrous belt, the sheen of which was beautiful. It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand; and, in singular contradiction 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 there 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."
In the book, Dickens descrbes the ghost of Christmas past as having a child-like face, but an old persons long white hair. It looks androgynous (not certainly male or female), and is referred to simply as 'it'. The ghost has very muscular arms and hands, but very delicate pretty legs. in one hand it is holding a holly (a symbol of Christmas time), but its long white dress is trimmed with summer flowers. It is bare footed and has a bright, candle-like beam of light coming out of its head ,and a hat under its arm so it can shut off the light when needed. It has flushed cheeks like a little child, also.