Overview

The legend has it that during the old times people feared the evil water spirit that lived in the wells. Therefore, in order to keep the well full they started making sacrifices to the well's spirit. The main objects of sacrifices were cats. They were thrown down the shaft, sometimes even still alive. That was so common that locals gave the well the name Cat's Well. Now it's just an old well in the centre of Old Tallinn, and cats are no longer thrown in it. Pay a visit to the well on the corner of Rataskaevu and Dunkri.