The Kattegat Ghost Figurine - Vask

Vask is a handmade collectable Ghost figurine, individually poured and engraved by The Nordic Ghost Merchants in Denmark.

The Kattegat is not a kind sea. It is the strait between Denmark and Sweden where the North Sea meets the Baltic. It's a place of cold currents and old memories. Fishermen who worked these waters did not speak of what they saw beneath the surface. They did not need to. The sea remembers on their behalf.  

The Kattegat Ghosts carry that water in them. Each one formed in the colours of an untamed Scandinavian sea; pale fog, dark storms and the blue grey of a sky that hasn't seen the sun in weeks. They arrived without warning. They may not stay.

Vask is said to appear after long periods of rough water, when the tide has washed the shoreline clean and left pale stones shining beneath the retreating sea.

Older coastal accounts describe him standing at the water’s edge before dawn, always where the previous tide had reached its highest point.

Fishermen believed that when Vask appeared, the worst of the weather had already passed.

By sunrise, he was usually gone.

Vask the ghost figurine stands at just short of 8 cm.