The lost soul in Ambla churchyard

The pastor of Ambla was once driving home late from a sick parishioner, past the churchyard. Where the graves of evildoers lay, the horses suddenly slowed as if something heavy, like a sack of hay, were caught at their feet. The pastor stopped, climbed down and called: "Come, show me where your grave is!" The sack rose into the shape of a tall person and stalked as if on stilts to a grave, slipping into it. There the pastor read the burial service and prayed, and told his coachman the wandering soul could now rest. Ambla's medieval church of St Mary stands in the centre of Ambla, Järva County.