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The Netherlands

One entry in one subarea: 1 at grade B. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

The entries, in brief

The folklore of the Netherlands documented in this atlas: Witte wieven. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (1 at grade B), with the sources it comes from.

Witte wieven B
Whitish female figures that appear at dusk near burial mounds, ponds and woods, often indistinguishable from the rising mist — in many versions they are made of mist. In 1660 Johan Picardt describes them in favourable terms:…

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