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The laughing bride of the Roosna sand hill

At Suuga, an outlying farm of Roosna manor, there was a sand hill where the dead of a war had been buried. A serf walking home saw a girl in white sitting on it and laughing; she never answered his questions, but began visiting the farm at night, and at last stayed on as a living farm girl. Two years later the master married her. Coming home from church, she led the guests to the hill and told them Swedish soldiers had killed her bridegroom there and then her, cursing her to wander until someone married her. Then she vanished. Roosna-Alliku manor house, in Järva County, today houses a school.

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

Eesti keeles

Roosna mõisa Suuga karjamõisas oli liivamägi, kuhu oli maetud sõjas hukkunuid. Teolt tulev mees nägi seal valget tüdrukut istumas ja naermas; küsimustele ta ei vastanud, kuid hakkas öösiti talus käima ja jäi lõpuks sinna elava teenijatüdrukuna. Kahe aasta pärast võttis peremees ta naiseks. Laulatuselt tulles viis pruut pulmalised liivamäele ja jutustas, et Rootsi soldatid tapsid seal tema peigmehe ja seejärel tema enda ning needsid ta ringi rändama, kuni keegi temaga laulatada laseb. Siis kadus ta. Roosna-Alliku mõisa peahoones Järvamaal tegutseb tänapäeval kool.

Map of the area around The laughing bride of the Roosna sand hill
59.03000° N, 25.70000° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: M. J. Eisen, 'Kodukäijad' (no. 39, 'Liivamäe tüdruk', recorded by J. Neublau, Jootma) ↗

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