Giidindus- Toompea
of Mistrust. During night all traffic between the Upper and Lower town was
stopped and the gates were shut at 9pm.
The Short Leg gate tower at the top of Lühike Jalg Street was created in 1454-56
and it connects Short Leg and Long Leg. It can be considered the most haunted
spot in the Old Town, simply due to the number and persistence of reported
incidents. Sightings have included a pair of monks, a woman in an old-fashioned
dress, and even a fire-spitting dog. In the 1930s some local spiritualists made
several attempts to contact the troubled spirit of a monk who had been the town
executioner in his earlier life.They failed, perhaps because the monk's ghost must
have spoken Latin.
As Tallinn has two "legs" of different length, it is sometimes humorously called "a
limping town".
Right from the Danish Conquest Toompea started to develop into the centre of
provincial authority, clergy and nobility in Northern Estonia. Most of the vassals
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