Some Dutch people has put pancakes on their head

 A legend of monks with bloodless heads, an angel protecting a golden frying pan and a fictional Sint Pannekoek. sure, nowadays is Dutch pancake day!

whilst lots of the world chefs their favourite candy (and savoury, I guess) pancakes on Shrove Tuesday inside the early months of the 12 months, people in Rotterdam have a unique subculture.

every yr, on 29 November, a number of Netherlands residents put pancakes on their heads in a unusual celebration that has gained traction.

as soon as the safe to eat hat is in location, followers of the culture say: "We want you a satisfied and blessed Saint Pancake (Sint Pannekoek)!"

So, how did we get there?

The celebration was invented in 1986 in a cartoon by using Dutch cartoonist Jan Kruis, wherein a father comes domestic inside the nighttime to find his own family wearing pancakes on their heads.

3 a long time later, Mr Kruis improved the concept with The Gospel of Saint Pannekoek.

in this piece, he tells the tale of twelfth-century monks in a monastery celebrating a younger monk's birthday and ingesting pancakes - but there may be best sufficient for one each.

whilst the vintage abbott will become bloodless, the young monk locations his pancake upon the elder's head.

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At this, an angel descends from heaven keeping a golden frying pan and flips a pancake onto the younger monk's head.

"The Lord has accomplished us a miracle! we've got a saint in our midst!" the others cry, and placed their own pancakes on their heads.

To learn extra approximately Sint Pannekoek, Sky news spoke to Dr Henriette Louwerse, a senior lecturer in Dutch on the college of Sheffield.

"it's far definitely made of direction, however reputedly it has received a few traction," she instructed us.

"I like the implicit grievance of 'the holiness of traditions'. The tendency to indicate that if traditions change, a profound identity is come what may infringed."