The Harvester Ghost Figurine - Ragnhild

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.

Ragnhild was first recorded at the centre of an emptied field after its owner ordered the ploughs returned before the harvest moon had set.

By sunrise, every new furrow had closed behind them, and the horses refused to cross the boundary until the tools were laid aside. Old records associate Ragnhild with the field’s right to rest after harvest, and with the warning that land driven without pause will one day answer only with silence.

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