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Ghost story · 1894

'The week is ending': the river by the Aruküla inn

„Nädal lõpeb“: jõgi Aruküla kõrtsi juures

Near a village inn, says a tale recorded at Aruküla in Koeru parish in 1894, a river took one person every week, until guards were set on the bank. A whole week passed without a death, and on Saturday evening a plaintive cry rose from the water: 'The week is ending and still no man!' A traveller arriving at the inn wanted to look, but the guards sent him to bed. In the night the voice called out that the week was done and the man had come. In the morning the innkeeper found the stranger drowned in a tub of river water inside the inn.

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

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Koeru kihelkonnas Aruküla kandis 1894. aastal kirja pandud loo järgi uputas ühe kõrtsi lähedal olev jõgi igal nädalal ühe inimese, kuni jõe äärde pandi vahid. Terve nädal möödus ilma õnnetuseta ja laupäeva õhtul kostis jõest haledat kaebust: „Nädal lõpeb, ei tulegi veel meest!“ Kõrtsi jõudnud teekäija tahtis minna vaatama, kuid vahid saatsid ta magama. Öösel hüüdis hääl jões, et nädal lõppes ja mees ka tuli. Hommikul leidis kõrtsmik võõra mehe kõrtsis jõest toodud veega toobri sees uppununa.

Map of the area around 'The week is ending': the river by the Aruküla inn
58.95940° N, 26.01890° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Estonian Folklore Archives E 13545/13546 (4) (O. Hintzenberg < Mari Birkental, Koeru parish, 1894), Rehepapp database ↗

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