Enraged, the piper stormed out of the town, vowing to return later to take revenge.
ĭespite the piper's success, the mayor reneged on his promise and refused to pay him the full sum (reputedly reduced to a sum of 50 guilders) even going so far as to blame the piper for bringing the rats himself in an extortion attempt. The piper accepted and played his pipe to lure the rats into the Weser River, where all the rats drowned. The mayor, in turn, promised to pay him for the removal of the rats (the promised sum was 1,000 guilders). He promised the mayor a solution to their problem with the rats. In 1284, while the town of Hamelin was suffering from a rat infestation, a piper dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing appeared, claiming to be a rat-catcher. Although the church was destroyed in 1660, several written accounts of the tale have survived. The earliest known record of the story originates from the town of Hamelin itself, depicted in a stained glass window created for the church of Hamelin, which dated to around 1300.
ġ909 Maxfield Parrish mural of the Pied Piper of Hamelin at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco 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. There are many contradictory theories about the Pied Piper.
The phrase "pied piper" has become a metaphor for a person who attracts a following through charisma or false promises. 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. 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.
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 with his magic pipe. The Pied Piper of Hamelin ( German: der Rattenfänger von Hameln, also known as the Pan Piper or the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the title character of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany. Postcard "Gruss aus Hameln" featuring the Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1902
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