![]() ![]() Boyer’s tour leads visitors past rows of half-timbered houses. While the tale has endured, so has Hamelin itself, which still looks as though it belongs in a fairy tale. Entranced by the notes of his flute, the transfixed boys and girls followed the Piper out of town and simply vanished. When the town refused to pay the Piper for his service, the saviour turned into a more satanic seducer and came for Hamelin’s children. They weren’t the only ones lured by his music, though. ![]() Trailing after the hypnotic notes of the rat-catcher’s magical flute, the rodents politely filed through the city gates to their presumed doom. And although each writer tinkered with the story, the basics remained the same: the Piper was hired by Hamelin to rid the town of its plague of rats. Originating as medieval folklore, the story inspired a Goethe verse, Der Rattenfänger a Grimm Brothers’ legend, The Children of Hamelin and one of Robert Browning’s best-known poems, The Pied Piper of Hamelin. ![]() The tale in fact has survived for a very long time. ![]()
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