Ghost story
The white runner of Kalmuneeme hill, Vihula
Near the old Sippa shop in Vihula, beside the Kõrve road, rises Kalmuneeme hill, where plague victims were buried in the great epidemic. Folk memory said that many people, feeling death near, washed themselves clean in the evening, put on a white shirt and dug their own grave on the hill, saying that tomorrow others would carry them there. Afterwards a ghost in white was seen at night running across the road below the hill; beyond that, as the 1893 recorder put it, the people's mouth stayed silent. Vihula is a village in Lahemaa, best known today for its restored manor, now a hotel and spa.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Vihulas Sippa poe juures Kõrve tee ääres on Kalmuneeme mägi, kuhu suure katku ajal inimesi maeti. Rahvas mäletas, et paljud tundsid surma lähenemist, pesid end õhtul puhtaks, panid valge särgi selga ja kaevasid mäele oma haua, öeldes, et homme veavad teised nad sinna. Hiljem nähti öösiti mäe all valgetes riietes kummitust üle tee jooksmas – muust, nagu kirjapanija 1893. aastal märkis, vaikib rahvasuu. Vihula on küla Lahemaal, mis on tänapäeval tuntud eelkõige taastatud mõisa poolest, kus tegutseb hotell ja spaa.
Source: Estonian Folklore Archives E 3624/6 (T. Lepp-Viikmann, 1893), Rehepapp database ↗