“You can take everything that is loose that night”: this is the loot from Poortje Pik, one of the strangest traditions in Flanders

Every year, young people go out in Rijkevorsel in the night of April 30 to May 1 and take everything that is ‘loose’ with them. Although this is sometimes interpreted somewhat broadly. Folklore with an origin probably somewhere around the 16th and 17th centuries, with proponents and opponents. The loot of 2026: classics such as a Dixie and traffic signs, but also old seats and a reel of cables. 11-year-old Stan was already there at 7 o’clock to take a look.

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