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Discover all benefitsCome discover the corner of the Yser (the Yser Houck) by hiking on its paths. You will appreciate its greenery, its heritage, but especially its anecdotes and unusual stories.
Water was everywhere in this clay country constantly watered by the showers from the nearby sea. Water was on the paths, impassable for a good part of the year, on the waterlogged fields, in countless small ditches, in the deeper becques and watergangs, in the scattered ponds, in the pastures and near the farms.
The liquid element, which the Flemish feared, fostered the legend of numerous spirits and extraordinary beings that sought to harm humans from the depths of the waves.
Thus, sitting by the hearth during the long winter evenings, grandmothers loved to describe to their descendants these formidable beings, whom they had themselves learned about during their long lives and from a young age, from the mouths of their own grandmothers...
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