Harvest days summaries

Question 1

Key events in day one of harvest

Answer 1

-Fire in dovecote and shack by Beldams
-Beldams are blamed for fire
-Villagers celebrate harvest
-Quill is introduced
-Mistress Beldam appears, and is chased by Thirsk (ch.3)

Question 2

Key events in day two of harvest

Answer 2

-Quill selects Lizzie Carr as gleaning queen
-Quill and Thirsk go on a walk since they’re assigned together
-Quill tells Thirsk that Jordan wants the village
-The man at the pillory dies and Jordan arrives
-Thirsk visits Gosse

Question 3

Key events in day three of harvest

Answer 3

-Willowjack has been brutally murdered
-Kent protects Mistress Beldam when her shawl is found bloody by Jordan
-Quill shows Thirsk his work; Thirsk views it as reductive
-Jordan’s men detain 3 women for witchery
-Thirsk is no longer trusted by village

Question 4

Key events in day four of harvest

Answer 4

-Carr tells Thirsk they’re not allowed to see the women and that the villagers suspect Thirsk and Quill of sorcery
-Kent reports that he heard Jordan’s men torturing the women to confess
-Quill is wanted by Jordan for sorcery
-The villagers attack a groomsman and flee.

Question 5

Key events in day five of harvest

Answer 5

-Jordan is happy that the villagers have fled, offers Thirsk a position and leaves for town.

Question 6

Key events in day six of harvest

Answer 6

-Thirsk frees the Beldam’s husband and they plough together
-Thirsk starts drinking and in the woods overnight consumes hallucinogenic ‘fairy caps’.

Question 7

Key events in day seven of harvest

Answer 7

-Walter finds two packed bags that he doesn’t remember packing outside the manor house, and enters to find it has all been destroyed.
-Sees the Beldams burning houses, and finds Quill, stabbed to death, in the cupboard.
-Beldams leave after he house is burned down, and so does Thirsk.