ABSTRACT
Few college students know details of the Pied Piper story. Most remember vaguely that it is a story about someone who led rats away from a town, but then wasn’t paid and ended up leading children away. Scholars believe the story has a basis in truth, but the question becomes, what is that truth? About one hundred years after the supposed disappearance, the event was recorded on the walls of a church in Hamelin, Germany: In the year of 1284, on Johns and Pauls day Was the 26th of June By a piper, dressed in all kinds of colours, 130 children born in Hamelin were seduced And lost at the calvarie near the koppen
