Ghost story · 1957
The dead baron's dancing horses at Tsooru
Tsooru surnud paruni tantsivad hobused
Around Tsooru in Rõuge parish, two short tales were recorded in 1939 and 1957. When the baron of Tsooru died, four black stallions were harnessed to his hearse, but they could not pull it away from the manor house: they stood foaming white and dancing on the spot, and could not draw it up the hill. People concluded the Old Devil himself was sitting on the coffin. Another account says that on holy nights spirits moved along the road between the ruins of an old church and the Haaboja hollow, and church bells could be heard where no church stood any more.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Rõuge kihelkonnas Tsooru ümbruses pandi 1939. ja 1957. aastal kirja kaks lühikest lugu. Kui Tsooru parun suri, pandi surnuvankri ette neli musta täkku, kuid need ei jõudnud seda härrastemaja eest ära vedada: hobused olid valges vahus, tantsisid paigal ega saanud vankrit mäest üles. Rahvas arvas, et Vanatont ise istus kirstu peal. Teise jutu järgi liikusid pühadel öödel vana kiriku ahervaremete ja Haaboja lohu vahelisel teel vaimud ning kuuldi kirikukellade helinat, kuigi kirikut seal enam polnud.