Ilumäe linden

This old linden on Ilumägi hill at Ilumäe is one of the few trees in Lahemaa that people still remember as sacred. Folklore names a whole cluster of holy spots here: the Kõnnu sacred grove, a sacred linden and a tree called Hiieniinepuu, on which offerings were tied. Local memory holds that gifts were still left at the tree in the early 1900s, in the belief that a generous offering brought the giver luck. A spring once welled up from beneath it and its water was used to heal sore eyes, but that spring has since dried up.