The Harvester Ghost Cat Figurine - Moth

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.

Moth was first recorded in the rafters of a threshing barn, where pale wings gathered around the final lantern of the evening.

Though the flame burned low, it did not fail until the last workers had found their way home. Old records associate Moth with lights kept for those returning after dark and with the belief that no one who laboured for the harvest should be left to cross the fields without a lantern waiting.

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