The Jævndøgn Ghosts - Torleif

Awarded Entity Number - BS1233-JGT

Chosen 24th of September, in the Year of Quiet Hauntings.

Placed into the Federal Republic of Germany

The Jævndøgn Ghosts are said to appear around the autumn equinox, when daylight and darkness briefly stand in balance and the first heavy morning fogs begin to settle across the Nordic landscape.

Their pale, mist-grey forms are crossed with wandering shades of berry, wine and darkened fruit colours remembered from hedgerows, fallen leaves and the last ripening things of the season. No two carry the markings in quite the same way.

Old accounts place their arrival in orchards, field margins and quiet roads shortly before dawn, where they are easiest to mistake for low fog until they begin to move.

Torleif bears the muted red of autumn fruit after the brightness has begun to leave it, washed through with the pale grey of equinox mist. His markings drift in long, weathered bands, like colour seen through a veil of rain and fog.

He is said to appear along orchard paths and field edges in the hour before sunrise, when fallen fruit lies dark beneath the trees and the morning has not yet decided whether to remain night.

Torleif the ghost figurine stands at just short of 8 cm in height.