Ghost story
The shape-shifting church warden of Viru-Jaagupi
Kabeli Madi was church warden and graveyard keeper at Viru-Jaagupi. Before he died he told his family to dress him in a shirt turned inside out and a tall white cap, and they did. His daughter, a chambermaid at Vinni manor, came to lay him in his coffin and set off back the same night. Her father walked along with her, in his white cap and white shirt. Sometimes he was a magpie, sometimes a black frog, sometimes her father again. "I'm not afraid of you, I know you are my father," she said. He went with her as far as Pajusti, where the road turns off to Vinni manor, and there he stayed behind.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Vanasti elas Viru-Jaagupis Kabeli Madi, kes oli kirikumees ja surnuaiavaht. Ta käskis perel end surres riietada pahempidi särgisse ja panna pähe valge torumütsi ning nii ka tehti. Tema tütar, kes oli Vinni mõisas toatüdrukuks, tuli isa kirstu panema ja hakkas sama öö eel tagasi minema. Isa tuli talle kaasa, valge torumüts peas ja valge särk seljas. Vahel oli ta harakas, vahel must konn, vahel jälle isa. "Ega ma sind ei karda, ma tean, et sa oled minu isa," ütles tütar. Isa saatis teda Pajusti külani, kust tee keerab Vinni mõisa poole, ja jäi sinna maha.