The Harvester Ghost Figurine - Gunnar

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.

Gunnar was first recorded beside an old drainage furrow after sudden rain began carrying the cut grain towards the flooded boundary.

By dawn, the water had turned aside and every sheaf remained upon dry ground, though no hand had cleared the blocked channel. Old records associate Gunnar with the keeping of the field’s ancient waterways, and with the warning that land forced to forget where its water belongs will reclaim the path in its own time.

Gunnar the ghost figurine is just short of 9 cm in height.