Ghost story
The night-riding baron of Rõuge manor
In Rõuge an old woman told in 1927 of the Samson family, owners of Rõuge manor. One of them, she said, had been so wicked and cruel in life that after his death he walked as a revenant. Every morning his carriage horses stood in the stable wet, exhausted and trembling, as if they had come back from a long drive. Once a stable boy who went out at night to check the horses met the old baron face to face in the stable doorway; only when the boy began the Lord's Prayer did he vanish. The later Samsons, she added, were all quite good people. Rõuge is a village in Võru County, famed for its valley of lakes.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Rõuges jutustas üks vana naine 1927. aastal Rõuge mõisa omanikest Samsonitest. Üks neist olevat olnud eluajal nii õel ja kuri, et käis pärast surma kodukäijana ringi. Igal hommikul olid tema sõiduhobused tallis märjad, väsinud ja värisesid, nagu oleksid tulnud pikalt sõidult. Kord tuli tallipoisile, kes läks öösel hobuseid vaatama, talliuksel vastu vana parun ise ja kadus alles siis, kui poiss hakkas meieisapalvet lugema. Hilisemad Samsonid olnud kõik päris head inimesed, lisas ta. Rõuge on Võrumaa küla, mis on kuulus oma järvedega oru poolest.