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The spirits of Allikukivi cave

Near Kilingi-Nõmme in Saarde parish rises a hill with a sandstone cave, sinkholes on its crown and a spring at its foot. People called the cave mouth the ghosts' gateway. According to a legend written down in 1890, spirits live beneath the hill and come out through the spring. At night they climb onto passing carts and sledges and make them so heavy that neither horse nor ox can pull them another step. A prosperous farm once stood on the hill, and its people were forever at odds with these underground neighbours. Some tellings add that factory boys who crept into the cave never came back. Allikukivi cave is now a protected natural monument.

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

Eesti keeles

Kilingi-Nõmme lähedal Saarde kihelkonnas kõrgub mägi, millel on liivakivikoobas, lael lehtrid ja jalamil allikas. Koopasuud kutsuti tontide avanduseks. 1890. aastal üles kirjutatud muistendi järgi elavad mäe all vaimud, kes tulevad välja allika kaudu. Öösiti ronivad nad möödasõitvatele vankritele ja reele ning teevad need nii raskeks, et ei hobune ega härg jaksa enam sammugi vedada. Mäel seisis kunagi jõukas talu, mille rahvas oli nende maa-aluste naabritega alatasa tülis. Mõned jutustused lisavad, et vabrikupoisid, kes koopasse ronisid, ei tulnud enam tagasi. Allikukivi koobas on kaitsealune looduse üksikobjekt.

Map of the area around The spirits of Allikukivi cave
58.14983° N, 25.01463° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Legend recorded in 1890 by Mihkel Kirschfelt for Jakob Hurt, discussed in the folklore yearbook Paar sammukest (2010). ↗

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