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The Pied Piper was the subject of a legend concerning the departure or death of a great number of children from the town of Hamelin in Lower Saxony, Germany during the in the Middle Ages. According to the legend, in 1284, while the town of Hamelin (in Germany) was suffering from a rat infestation, a man dressed in pied clothing appeared, claiming to be a rat-catcher. He promised the mayor a solution for their problem with the rats. The mayor in turn promised to pay him for the removal of the rats. The man accepted, and played a musical pipe to lure the rats with a song into the Weser River, where all but one drowned. Despite his success, the mayor reneged on his promise and refused to pay the rat-catcher the full amount of money. The man left the town angrily, but vowed to return some time

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  • The Pied Piper was the subject of a legend concerning the departure or death of a great number of children from the town of Hamelin in Lower Saxony, Germany during the in the Middle Ages. According to the legend, in 1284, while the town of Hamelin (in Germany) was suffering from a rat infestation, a man dressed in pied clothing appeared, claiming to be a rat-catcher. He promised the mayor a solution for their problem with the rats. The mayor in turn promised to pay him for the removal of the rats. The man accepted, and played a musical pipe to lure the rats with a song into the Weser River, where all but one drowned. Despite his success, the mayor reneged on his promise and refused to pay the rat-catcher the full amount of money. The man left the town angrily, but vowed to return some time
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  • Stained Glass from Church of Hamelin c. 1300
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  • German Legend
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  • The Pied Piper
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  • The Pied Piper was the subject of a legend concerning the departure or death of a great number of children from the town of Hamelin in Lower Saxony, Germany during the in the Middle Ages. According to the legend, in 1284, while the town of Hamelin (in Germany) was suffering from a rat infestation, a man dressed in pied clothing appeared, claiming to be a rat-catcher. He promised the mayor a solution for their problem with the rats. The mayor in turn promised to pay him for the removal of the rats. The man accepted, and played a musical pipe to lure the rats with a song into the Weser River, where all but one drowned. Despite his success, the mayor reneged on his promise and refused to pay the rat-catcher the full amount of money. The man left the town angrily, but vowed to return some time later, seeking revenge. On Saint John and Paul's day while the inhabitants were in church, he played his pipe yet again, dressed in green, like a hunter, this time attracting the children of Hamelin. 130-160 boys and girls followed him out of the town, where they were lured into a cave and never seen again. Depending on the version, at most three children remained behind. One of the children was lame and could not follow quickly enough, the second was deaf and followed the other children out of curiosity, and the last was blind and unable to see where they were going. These three informed the villagers of what had happened when they came out of church. Some stories suggest that the Pied Piper was in fact a demon or the devil himself. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicolored clothing, leading the children away from the town never to return. In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe.
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