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In 1284, the town of Hamelin was suffering from a dreaded rat infestation. One day, a man claiming to be a rat-catcher approached the villagers with a solution. They promised him a schilling for the head of each rat. The man accepted and thus took a pipe and lured the rats with a song into the Weser river, where all 999,999 drowned. Despite his success, the people reneged on their promise and refused to pay the rat-catcher, reasoning that he had failed to produce the heads. He left the town, but returned several weeks later. While the inhabitants were in the church, he played his pipe again, this time attracting the children of Hamelin. One hundred and thirty boys and girls followed him out of the town, where they were lured into a cave and sealed inside. Depending on the version, at most two children remained behind. Other versions claim that the Piper returned the children after the villagers paid several times the original amount of gold.


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Another interesting tidbit:

The tale has inspired a common English phrase, "pay the piper", which means to face the inevitable consequences of one's actions. The phrase sometimes refers to a financial transaction but often does not. A phrase with similar meaning and slightly more negative connotation is "face the music".

2006-10-12 01:15:07 · answer #1 · answered by nobody 5 · 0 0

Ya he did the rats and kids things, another guy did the snakes. The Pied Piper did that with a musical instrument allegedly. What he reeled in though was a fish. I don't think the Pied Piper was real, or if so that he actually got rats to follow music.

2006-10-12 08:18:22 · answer #2 · answered by Grev 4 · 0 0

a piper?

2006-10-12 08:08:16 · answer #3 · answered by hay hay 1 · 0 0

First it was rats, then when he didn't get paid, children.

2006-10-12 08:09:17 · answer #4 · answered by freyas_kin28 6 · 0 0

rats

2006-10-12 15:44:02 · answer #5 · answered by duc602 7 · 0 0

complex stuff. try searching into google or bing. that will help!

2014-11-28 01:03:26 · answer #6 · answered by dorothy 3 · 0 0

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