The Harvester Ghost Cat Figurine - Rook

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.

Rook was first recorded upon the arm of a weathered scarecrow, after the harvest birds had descended upon the stubble.

Though the field darkened with wings, none entered the stacked sheaves while Rook remained. Old records associate him with the guarding of gathered grain, and with the belief that the birds of the field must always be left their share, lest they return in greater number before winter.

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