The Harvester Ghost Figurine - Ulfrik

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.

Ulfrik was first recorded in a field where the final standing sheaf had been bound in the shape of a wolf and carried home at dusk.

No animal crossed the stubble that night, though tracks were found circling the barn at morning. Old records associate Ulfrik with the harvest wolf, the spirit believed to retreat into the last uncut grain, and with the warning that the final sheaf must be taken with reverence, lest the hunger of the field follow it home.

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