The Harvester Ghost Cat Figurine - Nettle

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.

Nettle was first recorded beside a forgotten sheaf at the field’s northern boundary, where a thick ring of stinging plants had grown overnight.

The grain remained untouched until its owner returned, though no one could cross the nettles without first speaking aloud whom the sheaf was meant to feed. Old records associate Nettle with the protection of provisions set aside for others, and with the warning that what has been promised must never be quietly reclaimed.

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