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Legend of the Farmer of Lassus and Kabouter Babé

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Legend of the Farmer of Lassus and Kabouter Babé

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Legend of the Farmer of Lassus and Kabouter Babé

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Location: Ferrières, Huy, Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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1. Natural Rock Tunnel near Bomal – Cave of the Coléoptère loop from Sy

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2. Sy Rocks – View of the ruins of Logne Castle loop from Hamoir

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3. Trail Along the Ourthe River – Les Rochers de Sy loop from Verlaine-sur-Ourthe

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Geert Palmans

January 10, 2023

The gnome Babé used to live at the foot of one of the rocks.
In exchange for doing a lot of work, Babé got food for his family from the farmer lassus, a hamlet downstream from Sy.
After his wife died, the farmer remarried. The new husband did not believe in those leprechaun stories at all and thus ended the friendship between Babé and her husband.
To avenge himself, Babé secretly exchanged the new baby of the family for a gnome child. The baby did not want to grow and because the farmer was worried, he told this to the little man who "coincidentally" passed by.
Babe promised the farmer that his son would grow normally when everything went back to normal and he got food again.
That happened.
The gnome exchanged the children again and the farmer never forgot to feed his benefactor.

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Dries

November 14, 2024

information board about the local legend about the founding of the village of Sy

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Location: Ferrières, Huy, Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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Legend of the Farmer of Lassus and Kabouter Babé

1. Natural Rock Tunnel near Bomal – Cave of the Coléoptère loop from Sy

2. Sy Rocks – View of the ruins of Logne Castle loop from Hamoir

3. Trail Along the Ourthe River – Les Rochers de Sy loop from Verlaine-sur-Ourthe

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