Ghost story
The white walker of Kasepää
Kasepää is one of the long street villages of the Russian Old Believers on the western shore of Lake Peipus, its wooden houses lined up for kilometres behind the dunes. Folklore collected among the Old Believers in the 1920s–1940s tells that every night at midnight a figure in white walked through the village and then went back into the lake. People who saw it crossed themselves and hurried indoors. Nobody knew who it had been in life. Today Kasepää, together with Kolkja and Varnja, is part of the Onion Route along the Peipus shore, known for its painted houses, onion fields and Old Believer prayer houses.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Kasepää on üks vene vanausuliste pikki tänavkülasid Peipsi läänerannikul, mille puumajad reastuvad luidete taga kilomeetrite kaupa. 1920.–1940. aastatel vanausuliste seas kogutud pärimus räägib, et igal ööl kesköö ajal kõndis läbi küla valges kogu, kes läks siis tagasi järve. Need, kes teda nägid, lõid risti ette ja kiirustasid tuppa. Keegi ei teadnud, kes ta elus oli olnud. Tänapäeval kuulub Kasepää koos Kolkja ja Varnjaga Peipsi-äärsele Sibulateele, mis on tuntud värviliste majade, sibulapõldude ja vanausuliste palvelate poolest.