Occultism and witch trials
· Vanalinn
Tallinn Masonic Lodge
The private rituals of Tallinn’s Freemasons invited rumours, although lodges also involved social life and charity.
Masonic lodges brought members together through rules, symbols and rituals. Meetings closed to outsiders aroused curiosity and helped produce myths in which a social association became an all-powerful secret organisation. This general Old Town map point does not identify a documented meeting room. The lodges’ historical activities should be kept separate from later conspiracy stories attached to their secrecy.
Practical information
Address: Vanalinn
Treat the Old Town point as an area for further research; the precise address of a particular lodge requires a source.