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Ghost story · 1938

The two whistling men at the Turvalepa gate

Kaks vilistavat meest Turvalepa küla väraval

When the plague went round Lääne-Nigula parish, Ann Saaremets, born in 1857, told in 1938, only two people were left alive in Turvalepa village. One evening the shepherd children coming home saw two men at the village gate, whistling, one standing on the other's shoulders. Those children who slipped quietly under the gate lived; those who spoke died. The plague went from farm to farm: a man came in and prodded a bowl of porridge with his stick, and the farmhand who ate it died. One mother lay down with her children, and only those her arms could reach survived.

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

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Kui katk Lääne-Nigula kihelkonnas ringi käis, rääkis 1857. aastal sündinud Ann Saaremets 1938. aastal, jäi Turvalepa külasse ellu vaid kaks inimest. Ühel õhtul nägid kojutulevad karjalapsed küla väraval kaht vilistavat meest, üks teise õlgadel. Lapsed, kes vaikselt värava alt läbi läksid, jäid elama, aga kes rääkisid, surid. Katk käis perest peresse: üks mees tuli sisse ja torkas kepiga pudrukaussi ning sulane, kes seda putru sõi, suri. Üks ema heitis lastega magama ja ellu jäid ainult need, kelleni ta käed ulatusid.

Map of the area around The two whistling men at the Turvalepa gate
58.93970° N, 23.82560° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Estonian Folklore Archives ERA II 189, 423/4 (70) (E. Ennist < Ann Saaremets, Lääne-Nigula parish, 1938), Rehepapp database ↗

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