Ghost story
The Devil's coach at the Vigala chapel
A cruel lord of Vigala had a small chapel built near the church and was buried in it, hoping the Devil could not reach him there. But on the second night his coachman heard thundering wheels: a coach drawn by eight coal-black, fire-snorting stallions swept into the yard, the dead lord on the box and the Devil inside, whipping him. Until cockcrow they crashed through the house. A wise man advised marking each chapel window with a cross and walling it up, which worked. When the lady refused to pay the promised barrel of gold, the coachman knocked a hole in a window and the coach came back the same night, until she paid. Vigala church stands in Kivi-Vigala.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Üks Vigala härra oli väga kuri ja laskis enne surma kiriku lähedale väikese kabeli ehitada, kuhu ta maeti, lootes, et vanapagan teda sealt kätte ei saa. Juba teisel ööl kuulis kutsar valju sõidumürinat: õue kihutas tõld kaheksa süsimusta, ninast tuld purskava täkuga, pukis surnud härra ja tõllas vanapagan, kes teda piitsaga nüpeldas. Kuke lauluni müristasid nad mõisas. Tark soovitas teha igale kabeliaknale risti ja aknad kinni müürida – ja see aitas. Kui proua lubatud tündrit kulda ei maksnud, raius kutsar ühe akna sisse augu ja tõld tuli samal ööl tagasi, kuni proua maksis. Vigala kirik asub Kivi-Vigalas.
Source: M. J. Eisen, 'Kohalised Eesti muinasjutud' ('Kabeli herra') ↗