The story of the pied piper of Hamelin
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Hamelin was a small town in Germany. The city was full of rats. Hamelin was a rats’ paradise truly. They were in houses, inns, shops, schools and in every street. It was a menace and a solution had to be found fast.
The mayor had often held meetings with the town folks to discuss this problem. At the beginning they had thought that cats would drive away mice. However, the number of rats became a problem for them. It was very tough to take proper steps as it was really very difficult to find huge numbers of cats. They were in a real dilemma.
One day, a stranger came to the town of Hamelin. He used to carry a flute along with him. He had a stern look on his face and had walked straight to the mayor's building. He faced the mayor of Hamelin and said, "It is well known around Germany that Hamelin has a problem with rats. I will get rid of all the rats. What would my reward be?" For a moment the mayor was stunned. It was difficult for him to believe that a man who was coming from somewhere suddenly was claiming to drive away all the rats from the city.
"Ten Thousand gold coins from our treasury if you can do as you promise," said the mayor. The stranger nodded his head and said, "In a day's time Hamelin will have no rats."
The stranger walked out in the street, pulled out his flute and started playing it. An eerie sound floated in the air. People of Hamelin could hear the beautiful tune from every corners of Hamelin and were paralyzed hearing this enchanting tone.
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1592 painting of Pied Piper copied from the glass window of Marktkirche in Hamelin
Postcard "Gruss aus Hameln" featuring the Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1902
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (German: Rattenfänger von Hameln, also known as the Pan Piper or the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the titular character of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany. The legend dates back to the Middle Ages, the earliest references describing a piper, dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing, who was a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away[1] with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service as promised, he retaliates by using his instrument's magical power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version of the story spread as folklore and has appeared in the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, and Robert Browning, among others.
There are many contradictory theories about the Pied Piper. Some suggest he was a symbol of hope to the people of Hamelin, which had been attacked by plague; he drove the rats from Hamelin, saving the people from the epidemic.[2]
1909 Maxfield Parrish mural of the Pied Piper of Hamlin at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco
The earliest known record of this story is from the town of Hamelin itself, depicted in a stained glass window created for the church of Hamelin, which dates to around 1300. Although the church was destroyed in 1660, several written accounts of the tale have survived.[