Surface forms, stones, sand

Once we went to the island of Naissaare with my husband. I said: “Look, how big stones there are.” A man from Naissaare said: "This is a created thing." – Look, like a fly he believed that the church was created all at once. – The world is created all at once though.

In the old days there were two Ogres. One of them was on the Puka hills and the other on one of the hills of Otepää. They started playing, throwing stones for fun to each other for fun. One threw, and the other one had to catch the stone thrown into the air, as a ball is caught nowadays. Many stones were gathered from this throwing and later some of them sank into the earth. 

Mountain of worry won't rot, shore of harm won't withdraw.

Hill is a grain garner.

A sod is not yet a mountain.

When a mare on the mountain was playing, a wolf got a foal into vale.

When the wagtail (called 'icebreaker') is out, you can no longer ride on the Lake of Võrtsjärv.

Explanation: A white wagtile arrives from the south to the breeding grounds very early in spring, when the water bodies have not yet been freed from ice.  Some of the popular names of the wagtile have come from the opinion, that it breaks the  ice with its tail blows.

About one kilometer from my place, there is a large and dense thicket with a number of small puddles, so-called Loiguräba – “Puddle Marsh”. This name comes from the fact that there are many small puddles there.
     What is even more interesting is that there stands a wonderful big stone in this Puddle Marsh. ---
    Once, a woman went to gather mushrooms in the forest with her small child. She went through the forests of the entire municipality, but did not find mushrooms anywhere.
    She thought: "If I go to Loiguräba, maybe I'll find them there."
    Done! So they go to Loiguräba. They get there and suddenly see a big grey nebula floating above the stone. There was a fern bush by the stone – a snake crawled out of it and snapped at the woman: “What are you doing here?”; and then it crawled back up the side of the stone and disappeared into the mist.
    They were wondering what it could mean? After a few minutes, three men jumped out of the bush and asked the woman and the child: "What do you want to get from here?"
    The woman with the child scampered from the stone as fast as they could go! They were running and running, for a long stretch, finally reaching the same stone above which the gray mist had already been floating. Again, the woman wondered what "hell" this meant. She stood for a while by the stone and was about to leave when a big black man jumped out from under the bush with a gun on his back, and he took the woman and the child to the top of the stone into the grey fog.
    After that, all the fog disappeared from over the stone, but the woman and child were nowhere to be found.
    The stone, however, stands together with the fern bush to this day.

And the second story happened right there, above a large stone, in the so-called Loiguräba – “Puddle marsh”.
    It had just been Saturday evening when L. K..., a resident of Aakre municipality, passed through Loiguräba to his home. He had just come from the hayfield. He came to a large stone, and suddenly saw that a black-grey nebula was floating above it. Some little men were following each other's tracks from the fern bush and climbing to the top of the stone. At the top, the little men poured the jingling things from the bag onto the stone and gradually mixed them with an iron rod. These men kept coming up one after the other and kept pouring the jingling things onto the stone. More and more men kept coming. Finally, L. K... became bored and went home. At home, he related his vision to the others. They said it was nothing more than a delusion.
    Later, the next morning, L. K. went with his son to see if the grey fog was still there. They got to the stone, but did not see anything unusual. They then climbed to the top of the stone to see if there was any sign remaining somewhere, but they didn't see anything else except a fireplace.