What do you know about Manneken Pis - the pee boy standing in Belgium

These days, the whole world is moving the heart of beautiful Belgium by sharing pictures of a pissed little boy with the desire to share the pain with the people of this country after successive bombings. at the airport and metro in Brussels. In the following section, join us in exploring the fascinating history stories about Manneken Pis "peeing boy" and see why this is considered a symbol that represents such a country. Even, the Belgian also said that the boy is a national hero.

The first thing to emphasize is that the effort to find information about the origin of this symbol is really difficult and the story of Manneken Pis was once thought to be a mystery. However, the last part of this article will reveal to you the truth about him.

The boy stood pee - the symbol of Belgium

The legend of the boy stood pee

After much research has been done, the experts have found some anecdotes behind this peeking little boy.

The first legend involving the story of an old witch living in the Rue de l'Etuve decided to carry out a severe punishment for a young boy standing in front of her house, which turned him into a boy. into a stone statue. Thankfully, at that moment, a kind old man appeared with a statue quite similar to the boy, so when the witch was about to take the curse down on this little boy, the old man quickly took the boy and set statue into that position.

The second less popular story involves a tiny boy named Julien . Once, Julien peeed into the door of a hermit's house. When he heard the sound of running water, the old man screamed and rushed out of the house. When he saw Julien, the hermit immediately allowed him to turn into a statue and constantly cursed his behavior. However, because this story terrified the children, many people changed the ending, which was more about the fact that the father had hired a man to make another statue similar to Julien and when the statue was replaced in place. of the boy who "turned petrified", the boy was made human again.

Every year, Manneken Pis is donated by many people around the world

The third story takes the listener back to the time of the Crusade involving a Earl from Hove who moved to Brussels to live with his wife and son Godefroid. The earl regularly hosts banquets for soldiers whenever he wins the battle. Once, he asked Godefroid - his 5-year-old son - a merciless child to walk in front of troops to greet the warriors. But Godefroid, then, was hyperactive, peeking in front of the marching army. Therefore, the earl's family decided to build a Godefroid statue that was peeking so that the warriors were comforted by his son's insulting behavior.

The fourth story takes place in the 8th century. A lord's wife gave birth to a baby (named Manneken Pis ) but the boy had a habit of urinating "loudly" to the point where the urine shot splashed on Vindicien's chin beard - the Bishop of Arras. Soon after, Vindicien died, so there was no place and no one was baptized for Manneken Pis. A few days later, a woman named Gudule came to bless the boy but because his father had committed illegal acts, Gudule decided to punish the lord by declaring his son Manneken Pis would never grow up and won't stop peeing.

Manneken Pis - the hero boy

In the 14th century, Spain (bordering the border with France) was a powerful country in Europe. At that time, Belgium (also bordering France) had a bad relationship with Spain, so it was often linked to France to confront this country.

In 1367, Spain dispatched more than 25,000 naval soldiers and invaded Belgium. In just two short months, Spain occupied the entire territory of Belgium including the Brussels capital. For Spain to withdraw, Belgium was forced to sign a surrender agreement for Spain and within 40 years it was not allowed to ally with France. After several months of negotiations, Spain finally withdrew its troops back to the country starting in May 368. However, when it came time to withdraw the troops, Spain emerged with a bad intention, that is, to use explosives to destroy Brussels.

Spanish soldiers disguised themselves as Belgians and secretly brought tens of thousands of tons of burial explosives in parts of Brussels and used a detonator to activate. After that, all Spanish troops began to withdraw from the Belgian capital except for a few people to detonate. When the line to spark was finished, suddenly a little boy ran to his feet and stood peeking into the slow-burning line of the breakout, causing the explosion to be wet and unburnt.

Manneken Pis - the story of a hero boy

Later, the Belgian army knew that he carried him up high and the Brussels people all praised him for saving the whole city of Brussels. Moreover, at that time, Belgium was extremely small (Belgium had more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, Brussels population was 200,000 people), not a country with complete sovereignty and still under house arrest. France. If Brussels is destroyed, the whole of Belgium will collapse so this boy is also considered a "benefactor" of all Belgian people.

In 1619, Jérome Duquesnoy , the great Belgian sculptor, made this bronze statue himself. Later, he was known as Julien Dillens.

According to many data, this is a true story. The records of Belgium and Spain have recorded this historical passage, including the process of Spain's attack on Belgium, the withdrawal process and the boy's shutdown of the detonator. Records in these two countries are matched.

This boy receives clothes every year from people all over the world. So, the boy is also called "The world's most clothed boy."