4,415 Estonian treasure legends plotted across 121+ parishes, coloured by emotional content. Sadness dominates the corpus — the fear and supernatural domains reveal the most striking regional variation.
What this shows
Each circle is a parish. The atlas lets you focus on a single emotion domain — fear, supernatural, sadness, joy, etc. — and see where in Estonia the treasure-legend tradition is most saturated with that emotion. Colour intensity encodes the share of that emotion among all emotion tokens at the parish, circle size encodes total emotional intensity of the parish's treasure legends.
How to read it
Click an emotion in the sidebar to focus on that single domain. The map recolours using a single-hue gradient keyed to the domain's palette colour.
Click "All emotions" for a corpus-wide view where each parish is coloured by its most dominant emotion.
Click any circle → a popup showing the parish's top emotion domains as a horizontal bar chart, plus a link to the full Treasure Legends explorer filtered to that parish.
Parishes with fewer than 2 records are hidden to avoid noise.
Caveats
Emotion annotations come from the treasure-legends semantic pipeline. Only 4,415 of the 6,196 legend records have enough emotional content to be scored; the rest are neutrally descriptive.
Sadness and fear are corpus-wide dominants (grieving burials, buried wealth, vengeful guardians) — the regional interest lies in the *minority* emotions, so use the single-domain focus mode to see those.
Place coordinates mark where legends were recorded, not necessarily where the depicted events were believed to occur.