Case file · Folklore / legend
The cat and the cradle of Kinderdijk
During the Saint Elizabeth's flood of November 1421, legend says a cradle floated to safety with a baby, balanced by a cat jumping from side to side; the place became Kinderdijk ('children's dike').
1421 CE · 51.88, 4.64 · status: legend
The account
The flood itself, which drowned the Grote Waard and many villages near Dordrecht, is well documented.