The Kotje Piepersbos borders the Hellegatbos and was already purchased in 1953 by the then municipality of Westouter. The forest owes its name to the village figure Cyriel Vanuxem, better known as Kotje Piepers. Before you could go into the forest, you had to give him a 'squeaker' or kiss. Like many other inhabitants of the region, Kotje Piepers and his wife Maria Lenoir did not really have it wide. To raise a little money, Maria smuggled butter across the Schreve. She made pockets in her wide skirt into which she put packets of butter. In the summer, however, things sometimes went wrong when the butter started to melt: hence her nickname Marietje Beuterbille.
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