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Lange Wapper Statue

Lange Wapper Statue

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Lange Wapper Statue

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Location: Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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Viviane

July 10, 2022

Lange Wapper is often represented as tall and thin. In comics and cartoons, his beardless chin is often very accentuated.

The tormentor appears at night and chases the drunks. At first as a small man, but he can make himself bigger and bigger until he rises above the houses. When the drunkard comes home, panting and sweating, Wapper looks in through the window.

Sometimes he disguises himself as a small child in order to drink breast milk. When a mother takes this child to take care of and put it in a crib, Lange Wapper lets himself grow so big that he no longer fits in the room.
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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

November 3, 2022

A playful statue of the Antwerp giant Lange Wapper. With his 3 meters height, he watches at the entrance of the Steen and watches the passers-by. Lange Wapper also called a tormentor who appears at night and chases drunks.

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June 1, 2023

Bronze statue of Lange Wapper from 1963 by sculptor Albert Poels who also made the Witte Monument on the market in Zichem. Lange Wapper is a tormentor who haunts drunks.

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