The Jævndøgn Familiar Ghost Figurine - Nettle

Awarded Entity Number - DJ5187-JGFN

Chosen 28th of September, in the Year of Quiet Hauntings.

Placed into the United Kingdom of Great Britain

Nettle is a handmade collectible Familiar figurine created by The Nordic Ghost Merchants in Denmark, inspired by the Familiars recorded throughout Merchant folklore and old Repository accounts.

Merchant folklore has never been entirely certain what to make of the Familiars.

They do not belong to the Guild. Not exactly.

They were never apprenticed, never sworn in, never given a merchant’s mark. According to the oldest Repository accounts, they simply… arrived. As cats do. And having arrived, they stayed.

They learned the rhythms of the Guild; the long hours, the careful work, the particular silence of a room where old things are being recorded. And they decided this was acceptable.

They are not entered into the Merchant’s Ledger as members of the Guild.

They are aware of this.

They have opinions about it that they have chosen not to share.

The Jævndøgn Familiars are most often associated with hedgerows, orchards and field margins around the autumn equinox, where berry dark colour remains beneath the first pale morning fogs.

Nettle has a habit of appearing at the very edge of a room, where the light is weakest and the floorboards complain the least. He does not interfere with proceedings exactly, but he is often found watching them with an expression that suggests he has already formed several opinions.

Ambrose has remarked that Nettle is ‘pricklier in temperament than in conduct,’ though no one has established what, precisely, prompted that judgement.

Nettle the ghost cat figurine stands at 5 cm in height.