Within the provided sources Ros Beiaard is presented as the civic and local manifestation of the widespread Bayard (magical horse) motif: the Wikipedia disambiguation links Ros Beiaard to Bayard and identifies the Dendermonde festival as related to that horse legend. The supplied materials do not record an independent mythic birth tale or autonomous supernatural origin specific to the Dendermonde effigy; instead the horse appears in sources as an inherited legendary name and as a constructed festival figure used in the Ommegang pageant.
The Dendermonde Ros Beiaard appears in the sources as an enormous wooden horse effigy used in public procession. A Dutch-language report describes it explicitly as "het enorme houten paard," and video/archive material documents its presence in the Ommegang Ros Beiaard pageant (2010). The effigy is normally paraded through the city on a multi-year cycle (reported as every ten years in one source, with a 2020 event postponed two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic). The provided sources do not give further sculptural detail such as coloration, exact dimensions, number of heads, or other visual specifics.
The provided sources do not attribute active supernatural abilities to the Dendermonde Ros Beiaard effigy itself. Wikipedia's disambiguation entry describes Bayard generally as a "magical horse," and Ros Beiaard is linked to that legend by name, but the documentary and archival materials included focus on the horse's role as a constructed, civic object in procession rather than as an autonomous miraculous agent. In the festival context the horse's "behavior" is performative: it is led through the town as part of the Ommegang pageant rather than described as acting on its own.
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- [1]Ros Beiaard. Wikipedia: Ros Beiaard (disambiguation) — links Ros Beiaard to Bayard (legend) and a Dendermonde festival.wiki
- [2]Wikidata: Ros Beiaard (Q2791868). Wikidata entry labeling Ros Beiaard as a Belgian folkloristic horse.other
- [3]Ommegang Ros Beiaard Dendermonde 2010. Archive video item titled "Ommegang Ros Beiaard Dendermonde 2010" documenting the procession.other
- [4]Ros Beiaard na twaalf jaar terug in Dendermonde. Dutch-language report: "Na twaalf jaar is het Ros Beiaard weer teruggekeerd naar Dendermonde. Normaal gesproken wordt het enorme houten paard elke tien jaar door de Belgische stad geleid, maar door corona moest dat twee jaar worden uitgesteld."other