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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The
town
of
Hamelin
we
find
about
35km
southeast
of
Bückeburg
at
the
river
Weser.
It
is
a
medieval
town
with
lots
of
framed
buildings, some of them dating back to 1500 and earlier.
About
the
year
1284,
Hamelin
suffered
from
a
rat
infestation,
bringing
the
bubonic
plague
and
destroying
the
harvest.
Then
an
odd-looking
man
in
multi-coloured
cloths
came
along
and
offered
to
free
Hamelin
from
the
rats.
The
mayor
promised
him
a
generous
reward.
The
stranger
agreed.
He
took
a
flute
and
as
the
tunes
came
out,
all
rats
came
and
gathered
around
him.
With
all
these
rats
the
stranger
marched
out
of
the
town
to
the
river
Weser
were
the
rats
drowned.
The
piper
then
went
back
to
Hamelin
and
asked
for
his
pay,
but
the
mayor
refused.
The
stranger
got
very
upset,
and
when
the
adult
citizens
were
in
church,
he
played
another
melody
on
his
flute.
Now
all
children
came
towards
to
him,
and
with
them
he
went
out
and
none
of
them was ever seen again.
Only
3
children
remained:
A
deaf
one
who
could
not
hear
the
flute,
a
blind
one
who
could
not
see
the
piper,
and
a
lame
one
who could not follow him.
