Ghost story · 1938
Nine rowan sticks against a dead father-in-law, Kannuka
Üheksa pihlakakeppi surnud äia vastu, Kannuka
Maria Sebar of Kannuka village in Vaivara parish, near Narva-Jõesuu, told a collector in 1938 of a father-in-law who had made his daughter-in-law's life a misery. When at last he died, she hoped for better days, but soon his spirit came back to torment her, crashing about the rooms and the loft and throwing things from place to place until she said she could not live there. Someone advised her to bring nine rowan sticks from the forest and put them in the house. She did, and the old man never troubled her again. Rowan was the classic Estonian protection against revenants.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Vaivara kihelkonnas Narva-Jõesuu lähedal Kannuka külas elanud Maria Sebar rääkis 1938. aastal kogujale äiast, kes oli minia elu kibedaks teinud. Kui äi lõpuks suri, lootis minia paremaid päevi, kuid varsti tuli äia vaim teda kiusama, kolistas tubades ja lakas ning loopis asju ühest kohast teise, nii et minia kurtis, et ei saa kuidagi elada. Keegi õpetas teda tooma metsast üheksa pihlakakeppi ja panema need tuppa. Ta tegi nii ja äi ei tulnud enam tülitama. Pihlakas oli eesti rahvausus klassikaline kaitse kodukäijate vastu.