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2 unusual facts about Het Steen


Het Steen

It depicts the giant Lange Wapper who used to terrorise the inhabitants of the city in medieval times.

Johannes Goropius Becanus

He also reports that Ters, a deity who seems to have been an equivalent of Priapus, was invoked by Antwerpian women when they were taken by surprise or sudden fear, and that there was a house in Antwerp adjoining the prison (see Het Steen) that bore a statue which had been furnished with a large worn away phallus.



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