Long ago, when there was no television, Facebook, Netflix and YouTube, people amused themselves with storytelling.

Children and adults alike hung on the words of captivating storytellers. Those narratives became longer and longer, spikier and sometimes more implausible.

Ghent has a mass of stories, sagas and legends: Geraard de Duivel, Margaret of Austria who was always in black, the priest’s mirror cabinet, the mermaid at the Minnemeers, the cruel death of Liévin Pyn…

Are you getting curious about the oral tradition in our beautiful city of Ghent? Get carried away.