Legend
The Devil's church site at Villa
Vanajuuda kirikuase Villa külas
Near Lake Küläjärv, on the land of Villa village in Haanja, a hilltop was once covered with a huge heap of stones. People said it was the Devil's unfinished church: he carried the stones up in the legs of his trousers by night, but when a cock crowed in the village his work stopped and he fled. A tale written down in 1926 adds that many of the stones were later carted off to build the Orthodox church at Haanja-Plaani, and that while they were being moved, the Devil's copper horns were found among them, broken off as he rolled the rocks.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Haanjas Küläjärve lähedal Villa küla maal oli kunagi künkatipp kaetud tohutu kivihunnikuga. Rahvas rääkis, et see on Vanajuuda poolelijäänud kirik: ta kandis kive öösiti püksisäärtes mäele, kuid kui külas kukk kires, jäi töö seisma ja ta põgenes. 1926. aastal kirja pandud jutt lisab, et suur osa kividest veeti hiljem Haanja-Plaani õigeusu kiriku ehituseks ja vedamise ajal leiti nende vahelt Vanajuuda vasksed sarved, mis olid tal kivide veeretamisel peast murdunud.
Source: After the Estonian Folklore Archives (E 56872, 1926), via folklore.ee ↗