The Harvester Ghost Cat Figurine - Cinder

The Harvesters appear only after the first grain has been cut.

Old Lammas records speak of pale figures emerging at dusk from the newly shorn fields, where the standing wheat had concealed them throughout the growing season. They are seldom witnessed before the final cart has departed. By then, only stubble, scattered husks and the long shadows of the harvest remain.

Earlier custodians believed the Harvesters kept account of all that had been gathered and all that had been left behind. They were treated neither as omens nor intruders, but as quiet witnesses to the turning year: spirits of labour completed, stores replenished and the first promise that winter might yet be endured.

Their appearance marks the opening of the harvest season at Lammas. They remain only briefly, vanishing as the fields are cleared and the late-summer nights begin to lengthen.

Cinder was first recorded beside the bakehouse hearth on the night the first Lammas loaves were drawn from the oven.

Long after the fires had been banked, one bed of coals remained alive beneath the ash, enough to kindle the morning flame. Old records associate Cinder with the keeping of warmth after harvest, and with the belief that a household carrying one ember forward would not go cold before spring.

Cinder the ghost cat figurine is just short of 7 cm in height.