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The Kuradikivi of Mõnnaste

Mõnnaste Kuradikivi

On the pasture of the Loime farm in Mõnnaste village, Tarvastu parish, a huge round boulder sits on a small rise, unusually with only about a fifth of its bulk buried. Below the rise, a 76-year-old local man noted in 1922, there was something like the mouth of a passage leading in under the stone. People said the Old Devil himself lived beneath it, which is why it was called the Kuradikivi, the Devil's Stone, and in the old days nobody dared to walk past it once darkness had fallen.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

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Tarvastu kihelkonna Mõnnaste külas Loime talu karjamaal asub väikese kõrgendiku peal hiiglaslik ümar rahn, millest erakordselt vaid umbes viiendik on maa sees. 1922. aastal märkis üks 76-aastane kohalik mees, et kõrgendiku all kivi juures oli näha justkui mõne sissekäigu suu. Rahvas rääkis, et kivi all elab Vanakurat ise, ja seepärast kutsuti seda Kuradikiviks; vanasti ei julgenud keegi õhtupimedas sellest mööda minna.

Map of the area around The Kuradikivi of Mõnnaste
58.31080° N, 25.80670° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: After the Estonian Folklore Archives (ERA II 270, 208, 1922), via folklore.ee ↗

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