The Torchlit Procession

[greenkira]

Last year I was walk­ing across Tallinn late at night, off to get a pint of the nice house porter at Hell Hunt, when a group in medieval garb and car­ry­ing torches stepped out of one of the old build­ings. They walked down to one of the gates in the city walls - all of Old Town’s for­ti­fi­ca­tions sur­vive - play­ing pipe and tabor. It was intensely sur­real and beau­ti­ful and a lit­tle scary. I treated this photo to look a bit like an early hor­ror movie, because it seemed to suit it.

My Eston­ian friends that I was meet­ing at the pub, when I described it, thought it might be a stu­dent group induc­tion rite of some sort. What­ever it was, it pro­vided some of my favorite pho­tos of Tallinn!

Originally published at Seeking the World's Soul. You can comment here or there.