The Harvester Ghost Figurine - Haldor

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.

Haldor was first recorded beside a harvest cart whose wheel had split upon the road home.

Though the axle should have failed before reaching the barn, the cart completed its journey and collapsed only after the final sheaf had been unloaded. Old records associate Haldor with the safe return of gathered grain, and with the warning that haste at the end of labour can undo what patience has secured.

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