Editing Urk (section)

===Ommelebommelestien===
A famous Urkish folktale is the story parents tell their children when they want to know where the babies come from. The tale involves a large exposed rock which can be seen in the IJsselmeer about {{convert|30|m|ft|abbr=off}} from the shore. This stone is known as the "''Ommelebommelestien''". Urkers often tell their children that there are two kinds of people-- ''vreemden'' (strangers) and ''Urkers'' (people from Urk). Strangers are usually born from a cabbage, or a stork brings them to their new parents, but Urkers come from a large stone which lies about {{convert|30|m|ft|abbr=off}} from the shores of their former island.  Nowadays, the stone is usually called  "Ommelebommelestien" (Ommel-Bommel Stone), but in former times it was called "Ommelmoerstien": ''moer'' means "mother's" in the Urkish dialect. In the tale, a [[stork]] comes all the way from [[Egypt]] to put babies in the stone. When the baby is about to be born, the baby's father is said to have to go to [[Schokland]] to pick up the key that gives access to the stone. So when an Urkish man is asked if he has been to Schokland, he is actually being asked if he has children. In the older days, when both Urk and Schokland were still islands in the [[Zuiderzee]], the father had to take the [[obstetrician]] in his boat and row from Urk to Schokland to get the key, and then from Schokland to the Ommelebommelestien to get the baby. Nowadays he would be able to go to Schokland by car, but according to the legend he still has to row. The door to the stone is somewhere below sea level, so it is difficult to find. Once the door was found, a small price had to be paid for the baby: traditionally one [[Dutch guilder]] for a [[girl]] but two for a [[boy]]. The mother was said to be kept in bed with a nail through her right foot. There she would celebrate that she had just become a mother.