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Cryptids of the Netherlands
What cryptids are in the Netherlands? The best-known is Kludde.
The Netherlands shares the Flemish tradition of the shape-shifting night rider Kludde, a black dog, horse or tree that tips travellers into the water. In a land crossed by canals and dykes, tales of a creature that drags people into the water suited a landscape where drowning was a real danger.
- 1 cryptid
Cryptids reported in the Netherlands
The legends of the Netherlands
Most of the Dutch and Flemish lore overlaps, and folklorists treat the Low Countries’ creatures as a regional family, with many names and few fixed borders.
Hotspots
- Low Countries riverlands
Flat river and canal landscapes like those of the Kludde legends.