Emergency-Period Corona Lore in the Sphere of Interest of the Researchers of the Department of Folkloristics of the Estonian Literary Museum

On 12 March 2020, the Government of the Republic of Estonia announced emergency situation in Estonia until 1 May and imposed special measures to hinder the spread of COVID-19. Although public gatherings had already been banned, the international conference under the heading “Between individual and collective trauma”, with Liisi Laineste, senior research fellow of the Department of Folkloristics of the Estonian Literary Museum (ELM), as the main organizer, continued with presentations also on 13 March. Conference participants from St. Petersburg were the last ones to cross the border at the Narva border checkpoint in a coach. Truth to tell, the coach did not cross the border anymore; the passengers had to switch to another one on the Russian side.