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Our arrangement was for you to bring me a child servant and then I give you the scissors... To snip, snip, snip your family's wings away to make them human again.
~ Adelaide explaining her deal with Beatrice.
I do as he commands, the voice of the night, the beast of eternal darkness.
~ Adelaide revealing her allegiance with the Beast.

Adelaide, also known as Adelaide of the Pasture, is the secondary antagonist of the 2014 animated television miniseries Over the Garden Wall. She is Auntie Whispers' sister and a servant of the Beast, symbolizing false hope.

She was voiced by John Cleese, who also portrayed the High Priest in Life of Brian and the French Taunter in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and voiced Cat R. Waul in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

Appearance[]

Adelaide is an old, pale woman with hollow cheeks, round eyes with dark circles, and grey hair. She wears a pointed blue hat with two red ribbons and several flowers, a red dress with a front pocket in which she keeps sewing supplies, and orange shawl with an hourglass symbol similar to a black widow spider.

Personality[]

Adelaide is a wicked witch who wants children to work for her, so she made a deal with Beatrice to give her a pair of scissors that will turn her and her family back into humans in exchange for Wirt and Greg. She is also a deceitful person, pretending to be sick to make Beatrice, Wirt and Greg feel sorry for her so they would walk right into her trap. It's also implied that she works for the Beast as well.

Biography[]

Adelaide is a witch who lives in a secluded hut where she presumably quilts. At some point prior to Wirt and Greg's adventure in The Unknown, Adelaide made a deal with Beatrice, promising her a magic pair of scissors to snip off her family's wings in order to turn them back into humans in exchange for a child to be Adelaide's slave.

Auntie Whispers

Auntie Whispers, her kind sister.

Throughout the series, starting at the end of "Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee", Beatrice lures Wirt and Greg to Adelaide's hut under the false promise that Adelaide can provide a way for them to get home. When Beatrice returns to Adelaide in "Lullabies in Frogland" (four episodes later), she enters through the chimney. Adelaide promptly tells her to close the hatch as the fresh air will be the death of her. Beatrice then tells her that she found Wirt and Greg but that she can't turn them over, but Adelaide tries to persuade her and complains about being an old lady who needs a strong child servant. Beatrice suggests becoming her servant instead after she uses the scissors, Adelaide considers this option, but it was at that moment that Wirt and Greg show up at the scene. She traps them in yarn and rejoices in her new servants. She was intending to fill their heads with wool in order for them to do her bidding without intervening. As revenge, Beatrice opens the window and lets in the fresh night air, ending up melting Adelaide away, which shocked Beatrice as she thought she was bluffing. Wirt and Greg then managed to escape the yarn, leaving Beatrice alone in tears.

Later on, it is revealed that Adelaide is the sister of the much kinder Auntie Whispers. She warns Wirt and Greg not to trust her living nearby, ironically unaware of her death and that the boys had already encountered her. Shortly before the Woodsman kills the Beast, Wirt gives Beatrice Adelaide's scissors, having took them when they escaped.

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Trivia[]

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Art of apparently Auntie Whispers holding Adelaide's scissors.

  • Adelaide's claim of the night air being poisonous seems to correspond to beliefs from around the late 19th century that deadly vapors rose from the earth after dark.
  • In an older concept, she was going to have many arms, furthering the spider aesthetic.
  • In an older script, the reasoning for her to want a child servant was due to jealousy of her sister. Whether this was still the case in the final product or not is unknown.
  • Pre-Concept Art by Nick Cross revealed Auntie Whispers holding the Adelaide's scissors, this suggests that either she was originally going be in Adeleide's place or Auntie Whispers had her original design. It is unknown if Adeleide was even created when the picture was drawn.

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