![]() It was also revealed in this episode that Sophie's intention in teaming up with the Originals was to take Marcel out of power so the French Quarter Coven could get Davina back and finally sacrifice her and thereby finish the Harvest, which would result in the resurrection of her niece, Monique (as well as the other Harvest girls). When Davina told Elijah her story about the Harvest in the present day, she admitted that while she knew she needed to die in order to complete the ritual, she was still afraid that the Elders were lying about the girls being resurrected after they had made their sacrifice, just as they had lied about the girls being killed in the first place. Anne's Church afterward in order to protect her from the witches who were desperate to find her and finally complete the ritual. ![]() Marcel was able to save Davina just before she could be sacrificed, and he hid her away in the attic of St. Monique, Cassie, and Abigail in turn were all killed in this manner during the first attempt at the Harvest ritual before Marcel and his vampires could intervene on Father Kieran's orders.Įach girl's death caused their magical power to be channeled into the girl who followed her, and when Monique was killed, all three of the sacrificed Harvest girl's magic was absorbed by Davina, giving her the full power of all four of them. However, it was revealed at the ceremony that the Elders of the coven had lied to the girls, and instead of being given a small cut on their palms for the blood sacrifice that would lead to their peaceful sleep, the girls were actually killed by having their throats slit while the rest of the coven watched. The four girls who were chosen for the Harvest - Davina, Monique Deveraux, Cassie, and Abigail - were assured by their parents and the Elders that they would be put to a peaceful sleep-like state for nearly a year until the Reaping, which was when they would then be "reborn" upon the completion of the ritual. The first mention of the Harvest ritual was in Sinners and Saints, where the ritual was explained through a series of flashbacks from the perspectives of Davina Claire, Sophie Deveraux and Marcel Gerard. You sow, and you reap that's the way the Harvest works" - Bastianna Natale Our connection to our ancestors weakens over time. The Elder who performed the first attempt at the Harvest ritual, Bastianna Natale, explained that the Harvest works much like the adage, "You reap what you sow." This means that their coven is rewarded for "sowing their seeds" (or, in their case, sacrificing their four young witches) by allowing them to "reap" the additional magical power given to them by the Ancestors in return for their sacrifice. ![]() Then, the coven is rewarded by their Ancestors for their faith and their offering of power by resurrecting the four girls and making the coven's connection to their Ancestors' magic even more powerful for the following three centuries, until the ritual is to be performed again, a stage that is known as the Reaping. To prove this faith, the coven sacrifices four young witch girls who are put in a kind of limbo for the duration of the Harvest ritual. The offering is meant to prove the coven's faith, not only in the Harvest ritual, but in the Ancestors themselves and the ancestral magic that the New Orleans witches, both living and dead, practice. The Harvest ritual involves appeasing the witches' ancestors by giving them an offering of power in exchange for the Ancestors strengthening the coven's connection to their magic, which weakens over time. This sacrificial ritual is performed once every 300 years as a means to strengthen the connection between the living witches of New Orleans and their deceased Ancestors, from whom they draw their magical power. The Harvest Ritual is a ceremony that is performed by those in the New Orleans witch community who practice Ancestral Magic. Sophie about the Harvest in Sinners and Saints
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