“Up there, comrades,” he would say solemnly, pointing to the sky with his large beak – “up there, just on the other side of that dark cloud that you can see – there it lies, Sugarcandy Mountain, that happy country where we poor animals shall rest for ever from our labours!” He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. Many of the animals believed him.
– George Orwell
Animal Farm. Chapter 9. Moses the raven on the mythical animal paradise. While many were believers, the pigs declared the raven’s stories were lies.