The Harvester Ghost Figurine - Thorred

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.

Thorred was first recorded at the field gate during a sudden harvest storm, after thunder had driven the reapers from the standing grain.

He remained there until every worker had returned safely, though several unfinished sheaves were lost to the rain. Old records associate Thorred with the wisdom of leaving labour incomplete when the weather turns and with the warning that no harvest is worth the life of the one who gathers it.

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