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1 linked pagePied Piper of Hamelin: Children, Rats, and the Folklore of a Vanishing
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a German legend about a piper who removes rats from Hamelin and then leads away the town children after the citizens refuse to pay him. The familiar rat-catcher version is later than the oldest child-loss tradition, but the two parts now shape the story together.
Classic Folklore - 9 min read