Cultural heritage

The Mukri bog is associated with several folk stories. In the southern part of the Ellamaa bog is a place called Krõõda bog. According to the legend, a woman named Krõõt drowned there and, ever since then, the pines in this area of the Mukri bog have red bark.

In the western part of the bog, around the village of Reonda are numerous place names ending in ‑murru: Tagamurru, Oinamurru, Mesimurru, Mikumurru, Matsimurru. According to the lore, the names of the area are derived from the unique method of slash-and-burn agriculture, which was called murru. For this method, people looked for an area on the banks of a stream with grey alders, logged it between 15 July and 15 August at breast height and left it for a year. Within that year, the alders decomposed sufficiently to begin tilling the land. As the grey alder grows on fertile soil and the time of logging was chosen so that the trees would not produce root suckers, it shows that the locals knew the nature well.