The Harvester Ghost Figurine - Torsten

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.

Torsten was first recorded at the threshold of a timber granary after a night of hard wind had failed to carry off so much as a single sheaf from within.

By dawn, every outer latch had loosened save the one beneath his keeping, and the grain inside remained dry and undisturbed. Old records associate Torsten with the guarding of stored harvests, and with the warning that any barn left careless or unsealed invites loss long before winter ever arrives.

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