Ghost story
The Devil's hill at Kärde
Kärde Põrgumägi
In the forest near Kärde village, famous for the 1661 peace treaty signed in the little house there, stands a big hill once called Põrgumägi, Hell Hill. According to a man from Kärde interviewed in 1939, the Old Devil drove down it every New Year's Eve on his seven-hundred-year-old gelding. People were afraid to come down the hill at night for fear of meeting him. A row of hollows running down the slope was pointed out as the hoofprints of the devil's horse; they were said to have been clearer once, before they grew over.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Kärde küla lähedal metsas, mida tuntakse 1661. aasta rahu sõlmimise paigana, on suur mägi, mida kutsuti Põrgumäeks. 1939. aastal küsitletud Kärde mehe jutu järgi sõitis Vanapagan igal vana-aasta õhtul sealt mäelt alla oma seitsmesaja-aastase ruunaga. Inimesed kartsid öösel mäelt alla tulla, et talle mitte vastu sattuda. Mäenõlvast alla kulgevat lohkude rida näidati Vanapagana hobuse kabjajälgedena; varem olevat need selgemini näha olnud, enne kui kinni kasvasid.
Source: After the Estonian Folklore Archives (ERA II 238, 567/8, 1939), via folklore.ee ↗