The restless bride stone of Metsla

By the road through the Saarikaluse farms of Metsla, near Koeru, lay a stone shaped like a coffin, called the Bride Stone. People said two wedding parties had once met there and quarrelled, and a bride was struck dead. A farmer once carted the stone home to use in his stove; within two weeks it came to him in a dream complaining that it was too hot and the silver round its neck was melting, and it had to be taken back. Decades later the manor bailiff used it as a cornerstone for his threshing barn, and he too was soon visited in his sleep. Metsla is a village in Järva parish.