True crime · 04.1935
The fortune-teller of Abja-Paluoja in court
Abja-Paluoja kaarditark kohtu ees
In April 1935 the Viljandi district court sent a well-known Abja-Paluoja palm reader and card-layer to prison for a year. On market days some twenty clients queued at her door. An elderly widow, a former bank clerk, had come to have her fortune told and was amazed when the 'wise woman' correctly listed her clothes, the 250 kroons she kept at home, the same again in the bank, and a little box she had lost. The first session cost only 30 cents, but over time, with charms and spells from the so-called Seventh Book of Moses, the widow was talked out of 1,085 kroons.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
1935. aasta aprillis mõistis Viljandi ringkonnakohus aastaks vangi Abja-Paluojal elava tuntud kädeluugi ja kaardimoori, kelle ukse taga seisis turupäeviti paarkümmend klienti. Üks eakas lesk, endine pangateenija, oli tulnud endale ennustada laskma ja jäi imestama, kui „tark“ loetles õigesti tema riided, kodus hoitavad 250 krooni, sama palju pangas ja ühe kaotsi läinud kastikese. Esimene seanss maksis vaid 30 senti, kuid aja jooksul petis naine posimise ja nn 7. Moosese raamatu nõidussõnadega lesel välja 1085 krooni.