The oldest picture of Pied Piper (watercolour) copied from the glass window of Marktkirche in Hamelin by Freiherr Augustin von Moersperg.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a legend, documented by the Brothers Grimm (Der Rattenfänger von Hameln, which translates to "The Ratcatcher of Hamelin"), which tells of an unusual disaster that occurred in the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Germany, on 26 June 1284. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Pied Piper may refer to: The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a traditional German folk tale, circa 1300. ... For information about the other uses of the name, see Brothers Grimm (disambiguation). ... Hamelin (German: Hameln) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events War and politics King Charles II of Naples is captured in a naval battle off Naples by Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon. ...

In 1284, the town of Hamelin was suffering from a rat infestation. One day, a man claiming to be a rat-catcher approached the villagers with a solution. They promised to pay him for the removal of the rats. The man accepted, and thus played a musical pipe to lure the rats with a song into the Weser river, where all of them drowned. Cover of the 1889 publication Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-Catcher by Ike Matthews The rat-catcher is a profession centered around catching rats as a form of pest control. ... Pan pipes (also known as the panflute or the syrinx or quills) is an ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the stopped pipe, consisting usually of ten or more pipes of gradually increasing length. ... Weser watershed The Weser is a river of north-western Germany. ...

Despite his success, the people reneged on their promise and refused to pay the rat-catcher. The man left the town angrily, but returned some time later, on June 26th, seeking revenge.

While the inhabitants were in 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 never seen again. Depending on the version, at most two children remained behind (one of whom was lame and could not follow quickly enough) who informed the villagers what had happened when they came out of the church.

Other versions (but not the traditional ones) claim that the Piper returned the children after the villagers paid several times the original amount of gold.

History

The rats of Hamelin

The earliest mention of the story seems to have been on a stained glass window placed in the Church of Hamelin c. 1300. The window was described in several accounts between the 14^th century and the 17^th century but it seems to have been destroyed. Based on the surviving descriptions, a modern reconstruction of the window has been created by Hans Dobbertin. It features the colorful figure of the Pied Piper and several figures of children dressed in white. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Strictly speaking, stained glass is glass that has been painted with silver stain and then fired. ... Events February 22 - Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII. March 10 - Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of Englanddo (aka Edward Longshanks) include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent. ... This 14th-century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right). ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Hans Dobbertin, (April 17, 1952 - February 2, 2006) was a German cryptographer who is best known for his cryptanalysis of the MD4 hash function. ...

This window is generally considered to have been created in memory of a tragic historical event for the city. But although there has been a lot of research, no clear explanation can be given of what historical event is behind the reports. See this list of hypotheses.[1] However, the rats were first added to the story in the late 16^th century; they are absent from all previous accounts. Some traumatic event must have given rise to the tale; Hamelin town records are dated from this time. (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... A traumatic event is an event that is or may be a cause of trauma. ...

Theories that have gained some support can be grouped into the following categories:

• The children fell victim to an accident, either drowning in the river Weser or being buried in a landslide.
• The children contracted some disease during an epidemic and were led out of town to die in order to protect the rest of the city's population from contracting it.
  • An early form of Black Death has been suggested.
  • Others attribute the dancing of the children to be an early reference to Huntington's disease; however, this is an inherited disorder, and the statistical probability of that many unrelated children having the same genetic condition is very low.
  • Another possibility would be the outbreaks of chorea, or communal dancing mania, which are recorded in a number of European towns during the period of general distress which followed the Black Death. The 'Verstegan/Browning' date, 1376, would be consistent with this. These theories perceive the Piper as a symbolic figure of Death. Death is often portrayed dressed in motley, or "pied." Analogous themes which are associated with this theory include the Dance of Death, Totentanz or Danse Macabre, a common medieval type. Various ecstatic outbreaks were associated with the Plague, such as the Flagellants, who wandered from place to place while scourging themselves in penance for sins that presumably brought the plague upon Europe. The rat is the preferred host for the plague vector, the rat flea. When the rats die, the fleas seek humans as a substitute host. Children might be especially vulnerable to the disease.

The Pied Piper leads the children.

• The children left the city to be part of a pilgrimage, a military campaign, or even a new Children's crusade (which occurred in 1212, not long before) but never returned to their parents. These theories see the unnamed Piper as their leader or a recruiting agent.
• The children willingly abandoned their parents and Hamelin in order to become the founders of their own villages during the colonization of Eastern Europe. Several European villages and cities founded around this time have been suggested as the result of their efforts as settlers. This claim is supported by corresponding placenames in both the region around Hamelin and the eastern colonies where names such as Querhameln ("mill village Hamelin") exist. Again the Piper is seen as their leader.
• There have also been stories that a few months after the disappearance of the children, in a forest nearby there were bodies of children found underneath the trees. Meaning the Pied Piper could actually have been a real person who killed the children.

The tradition that the children emigrated in 1284 is so old and well-reported that explanations associated with the Black Death seem unlikely (there is an alternative, post-Black Death, date 1376, but it is documented far away from Hamelin and as late as 1605 - see below). Modern scholars regard the emigration theory to be the most probable,^[1] i.e. that the Pied Piper of Hamelin was a recruiter for the colonization of Eastern Europe which took part in the 13^th century and that he led away a big part of the young generation of Hamelin to a region in Eastern Germany. Landslide of soil and regolith in Pakistan A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debris flows. ... In epidemiology, an epidemic (from [[Latin language] epi- upon + demos people) is a disease that appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is expected, based on recent experience (the number of new cases in the population during... This article concerns the mid fourteenth century pandemic. ... A contemporary dancer rehearsing in a dance studio Dance generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ... // Chorea sancti viti (Latin for St. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... // Events March – The treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377. ... “Grim Reaper” redirects here. ... From The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein La Danse Macabre, also called Dance of death, La Danza Macabra, or Totentanz, is a late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter ones station in life, the dance of death united all. ... The Flagellants were a 13th and 14th century Christian movement. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the religious or spiritual journey. ... The military use of children refers to children being placed in harms way in military actions, the desire being to protect a location or provide propaganda. ... The Childrens Crusade is the name given to a variety of fictional and factual events in 1212 that combine some or all of these elements: visions by a French and/or German boy, an intention to peacefully convert Muslims to Christianity, bands of children marching to Italy, and children... Evolution of German linguistic area from 700 to 1950 Settlement in the East (German: ), also known as German eastward expansion, refers to the eastward migration and settlement of Germans into regions inhabited since the Great Migrations by the Balts, Romanians, Hungarians and, since about the 8th century, the Slavs. ... (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ...

Decan Lude of Hamelin was reported c. 1384 to have in his possession a chorus book containing a Latin verse giving an eyewitness account of the event.^{[citation needed]} The verse was reportedly written by his grandmother. This chorus book is believed to have been lost since the late 17^th century. The odd-looking name ‘Decan Lude’ may possibly indicate a priest holding the position of Dean (Latin decanus, modern German Dechant) whose name was Ludwig; but as yet he has proved impossible to trace. Year 1384 was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ...

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Reportedly, there is a long-established law forbidding singing and music in one particular street of Hamelin, out of respect for the victims: the Bungelosenstrasse adjacent to the Pied Piper's House. During public parades which include music, including wedding processions, the band will stop playing upon reaching this street and resume upon reaching the other side. The Pied Pipers House Pied Pipers House ca. ...

In 1556, De miraculis sui temporis (Latin: Concerning the Wonders of his Times) by Jobus Fincelius mentions the tale. The author identifies the Piper with the Devil. Events January 16 - Abdication of Emperor Charles V. His son, Philip II becomes King of Spain, while his brother Ferdinand becomes Holy Roman Emperor January 23 - The Shaanxi earthquake, the deadliest earthquake in history, occurs with its epicenter in Shaanxi province, China. ... Fincelius wrote the Warhafftige beschreybung und gründlich verzeichnuß schröcklicher Wunderzeichen und Geschichten containing the oldest printed tale of the Hameln Pied Piper. ... This is an overview of the Devil. ...

The Lame Child

The earliest English account is that of Richard Rowland Verstegan (1548-c. 1636), an antiquary and religious controversialist of partly Dutch descent, in his Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (Antwerp, 1605); unfortunately he does not give his source. He includes the reference to the rats and the idea that the lost children turned up in Transylvania. The phrase 'Pide [sic] Piper' occurs in his version and seems to have been coined by him. Curiously enough his date is entirely different from that given above: July 22, 1376. Verstegan's account was copied in Nathaniel Wanley's Wonders of the Visible World (1687), which was the immediate source of Robert Browning's well-known poem (below). Verstegan's account is also repeated in William Ramesey's Wormes (1668) - "...that most remarkable story in Verstegan, of the Pied Piper, that carryed away a hundred and sixty Children from the Town of Hamel in Saxony, on the 22. of July, Anno Dom. 1376. A wonderful permission of GOD to the Rage of the Devil". Image File history File links Size of this preview: 447 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (894 × 1200 pixel, file size: 70 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Pied Piper - illustration by Kate Greenaway - Project Gutenberg eText 18343 From The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning, illustrated by... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 447 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (894 × 1200 pixel, file size: 70 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Pied Piper - illustration by Kate Greenaway - Project Gutenberg eText 18343 From The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning, illustrated by... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Richard Rowlands (before 1560- after 1620), Anglo-Dutch antiquary, whose real name was Verstegen, was the son of a cooper whose father, Theodore Roland Verstegen, a Dutch emigrant, came from the Seventeen Provinces to the Kingdom of England c. ... Events Mary I of Scotland sent to France Births September 2 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (died 1616) September 29 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1626) Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (died 1624) Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, and occultist (burned at the stake) 1600 (died 1600) Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general... Year 1636 (MDCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see Antwerp (disambiguation). ... 1605 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the region in Romania. ... is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events March – The treaty between England and France is extended until April of 1377. ... Events March 19 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. ... Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889) was a British poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. ... 1668 (MDCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ...

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Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, siblings known as the Brothers Grimm, drawing from eleven sources included the tale in their collection "Deutsche Sagen", first published in 1816. According to their account two children were left behind as one was blind and the other lame, so neither could follow the others. The rest became the founders of Siebenbürgen (Transylvania). Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863), German philologist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. ... The Brothers Grimm on a 1000DM banknote. ... For information about the other uses of the name, see Brothers Grimm (disambiguation). ...

Using the Verstegan/Wanley version of the tale and adopting the 1376 date, Robert Browning wrote a poem of that name which was published in 1842. Browning's verse retelling is notable for its humor, wordplay, and jingling rhymes.

“When, lo, as they reached the mountain's side,
A wondrous portal opened wide,
As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed;
And the Piper advanced and the children followed,
And when all were in to the very last,
The door in the mountain-side shut fast.”

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Allusions in linguistics

In linguistics pied-piping is the common, informal name for the ability of question words and relative pronouns to drag other words along with them when brought to the front, as part of the phenomenon called Wh-movement. For example, in "For whom are the pictures?", the word "for" is pied-piped by "whom" away from its declarative position ("The pictures are for me"), and in "The mayor, pictures of whom adorn his office walls" both words "pictures of" are pied-piped in front of the relative pronoun, which normally starts the relative clause. Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. ... Wh-movement or wh-fronting is a syntactic phenomenon whereby interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) appear at the beginning of an interrogative sentence. ... A poprelative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause within a larger sentence. ...

Some researchers believe that the tale has inspired the common English phrase "pay the piper", although others disagree. To "pay the piper" means to face the inevitable consequences of one's actions, possibly alluding to the story where the villagers broke their promise to pay the Piper for his assistance in ridding the town of the rats. The phrase sometimes refers to a financial transaction but often does not.

Also, some experts on pedophilia, such as Ken Lanning, in writing about the seduction of children by some pedophiles, have used the term the "Pied Piper effect" to describe a "unique ability to identify with children." [A Behavioral Profile of Pedophiles] Pedophilia or pædophilia (see spelling differences) is a mental state in which an adult has a preferential sexual attraction to prepubescent and in some definitions, preadolescent children. ...

Contemporary renditions

Literature

• The military interpretation of the Pied Piper story is used as a foreshadowing device in Rainbow Valley (1919) by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The story is told on two occasions by young Walter Blythe, son of Anne of Green Gables, who will later be called to fight in World War I, and fall in the Battle of the Somme (1916).
• The Pied Piper story is heavily referenced by the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva in her poem The Ratcatcher, first published in 1925.
• Eric Frank Russell's short story "The Rhythm of the Rats", published in the July 1950 issue of Weird Tales, is a retelling of the Pied Piper legend as a 20th century horror story.
• In Beverly Cleary's children's novel Ellen Tebbits (1951), the school puts on a version of the story, in which the Pied Piper brings the children back. Ellen says that her mother had not said the piper brought the children back, but the teacher called it a "creative" play. Ellen got a part in the play as a "substitute rat," and that was the title of that chapter in the book.
• An allusion to the folk tale appears in the poem The Drunk in the Furnace (1960) by W. S. Merwin. Children "flock like piped rats" to the noises of a drunk in a furnace while their parents are at church.
• In his poem, "The One Who Stayed" (in the collection Where the Sidewalk Ends, 1974) Shel Silverstein tells the story of a child who stayed behind while the rest of Hamlin's children followed the piper's song.
• Harlan Ellison's "Emissary from Hamelin" (included in his collection Strange Wine, 1978) tells of a descendant of the original pied piper coming back seven hundred years later to lead all the adults away as punishment for centuries of "making the world a bad place". While the piper does not explain what he means, the narrator understands this to mean violence, pollution, lying, crime, and a lack of empathy.
• In the Belgian comic book Le Bal du rat mort (1980), the title of which means the ball of the dead rat,^[3] police inspector Jean Lamorgue is like a pied piper who has to deliver the city of Ostend from thousands of invading rats who attack people and kill them, but in the end he fails because he is possessed by his own demons.
• The Ratastrophe Catastrophe (1990) by David Lee Stone is a parody based on the Pied Piper about a boy called Diek who takes away the children of a town because a voice in his head told him to.
• What Happened in Hamelin (1993) by Gloria Skurzynski is a young adult novel in ergotism from contaminated rye crops helps explain the mystery of what happened there.
• The story provides the basis for the central plot and several characters in the 1998 debut novel King Rat by China Miéville.
• After Hamelin (2000) by Bill Richardson is a children's book that picks up the story where Browning's poem left off. It is written in the voice of the deaf child in the poem, whom Richardson names Penelope.
• Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001) is a humorous take on the Pied Piper. A talking cat engineers the plagues (and subsequent removals by his sidekick piper). The story lampoons the fairy tale conventions of the original tale while providing thoughtful commentary on the motives that drive people to act as they do in the real world.
• Michael Moorcock produces his own theory of the Hamelin tale in his book, The Dreamthief's Daughter (2002), where the cavern that the children escape into is actually a secret entrance to the Mittelmarch.
• In the Diana Jo Napoli novel Breath (2003) the main antagonist, Sal, is the lame boy who did not catch up with the pied piper.
• In the fifth book of The Dark Tower Series, Wolves of the Calla (2003), by Stephen King, the town robot Andy leads the children through the town playing a song, and a reference is made to the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Andy turns out to be the one helping the Wolves take the children away.
• German author Wolfgang Hohlbein uses the Pied Piper as a secondary antagonist (as the slave of a demon) in his fantasy novel Dreizehn ("Thirteen") (2003).
• The Piper is also mentioned as an antagonist in Garth Nix's series, the Keys to the Kingdom (2003).
• In 2005, children's author Jane Yolen wrote a young adult novel about the tale: Pay the Piper, a rock and roll fairy tale.
• In 2005, Adam McCune and Keith McCune, a father-son writing team, published The Rats of Hamelin, in which an eighteen-year-old Pied Piper faces a hidden enemy with powers like his own.
• In the Mary Higgins Clark novel Two Little Girls in Blue (2006), the main antagonist is until the end referred to as the Pied Piper, for his plot involves the kidnapping of a pair of twin children.

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Theater

• The 2006 DVD version "O Flautista", choreographer by Iolanda Rodrigues, dance show performed by CeDeCe - Companhia de Danca Contemporanea. This DVD was directed by Joao Tocha.
• In the play The Pillowman, the main character had written a story explaining the origin of the lame child who could not follow the Piper. He claimed that it was the Piper himself who chopped off the child's toes, because the child had showed him kindness, and the Piper did not want to punish the child.
• A musical entitled The Pied Piper of Hamelin, written and composed by Harvey Shield and Richard Jarbot, was produced and performed at the Olio Theater in Los Angeles in 1984; the original title was 1284, the year in which the actual Pied Piper visited Hamelin. A recording of the soundtrack was released in 1984 on Panda Digital with Harvey Shield, John Mostetter, Jodi Mitchell, J.D. Ellis, Joey Sheck, Susan Holmes, Del Appleby and Lesley Sachs.
• An opera entitled The Piper of Hamelin, written and composed by Nicolas Flagello in 1970, was performed and recorded live by the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division in March 1999 and released on Newport Classics [NCD 60153]. The production was conducted by Jonathan Strasser, and the performers included Bob McGrath of Sesame Street fame as "The Narrator", Brace Negron as "The Piper", Troy Doney as "The Mayor" and Nicole McQuade as "The First Woman (soloist)". This opera differs in its ending from the Browning poem; while the Piper leads the children from town, he later returns alone and is freely given the promised 1,000 guilders by the distraught and repentant townspeople, and the children are reunited with their parents.
• In 2002, the ballet The Contract (The Pied Piper) composed by Michael Torke, libretto by Robert Sirman and choreographed by James Kudelka was created to celebrate the National Ballet of Canada's 50th Anniversary season. Taking as its inspiration the story of the Pied Piper, The Contract centers its story around the character of "Eva", a charismatic faith healer who is contracted to rid a small community of a mysterious illness that afflicts the town's young people. She succeeds, but when the town's elders find reason to disapprove of her private conduct, they refuse to honor the contract, precipitating an even greater tragedy. In May 2003, the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra recorded a CD of Michael Torke's original music for The Contract.
• Mark Alburger's opera, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (2004), with a libretto after the Robert Browning poem, was premiered at Thick House Theater in San Francisco (2006), with the Piper in the guise of George W. Bush and the Rats as terrorists.
• Pleasantville, New York's Little Village Playhouse [2] children's theatre group performed a retelling of the piper story from the point of view of the children, "New Hamelin" (2007). In the musical, the children having been seduced to a cave by the music of the piper, return to their town and vengefully kill their parents for not coming to their rescue. The show was written by director Adam David Cohen and partner Kevin Laub.

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Music

• John Corigliano composed The Pied Piper Fantasy (1979-82), a concerto for flute and orchestra. The work, by flute virtuoso James Galway, premiered on February 4, 1982 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles performed by Galway (as the flutist) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The World Premiere Recording was recorded December 8th and 9th, 1985 and released on RCA Victor, performed by Galway and the Eastman Philharmonic, conducted by David Effron. Another version is available on Koch International Classics, performed by Alexa Still and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and conducted by James Sedares. The Pied Piper Fantasy consists of seven parts: 1) Sunrise and The Piper's Song, 2) The Rats, 3) Battle with The Rats, 4) War Cadenza, 5) The Piper's Victory, 6) The Burghers' Chorale, 7) The Children's March.
• Folk singer Donovan, who starred in the 1972 film The Pied Piper as the title character, recorded the song "People Call Me the Pied Piper" which was included in his album Pied Piper, released on the Music for Little People label (another version of this song was included in the film).
• "Pied Piper" is a song composed by Ian Anderson, released on Jethro Tull concept album Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! (1976).
• The Megadeth song "Symphony of Destruction" contains lyrics referencing the piper, in the lines "Like the pied piper led the rats through the street."

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Film

• The story has been depicted many times on film: 1903, 1911, 1913, 1918, 1924, 1926, 1933, 1957, 1972, 1981, 1982 and 1985.
  • The 1933 version was produced as an animated Walt Disney Silly Symphony short. Changes to the story include the rats being lured by a mirage of cheese created by the Piper's music and made to disappear into thin air (rather than being drowned in the river), and the children being "rescued" by the Piper from the bad upbringing being given by their selfish parents.
  • The 1957 made-for-television film "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" was a musical version in color, using the music of Edvard Grieg, and starring Van Johnson in the title role. Claude Rains and Jim Backus also star in this film. The dialogue for this film was in rhyme, and included generous chunks of Browning's poem. It was first shown by NBC as a Thanksgiving special, and later syndicated to local stations. In the early 1960s, it was briefly shown in theatres.
  • The 1972 film The Pied Piper was not a musical per se, although it contained music by Donovan, who also played the title role. This was an especially dark and realistic version of the tale. The film was directed by Jacques Demy and also starred Jack Wild, Michael Hordern, Donald Pleasance and John Hurt.
  • A stop-action "claymation" half-hour version was made in 1981 in the United Kingdom directed by Mark Hall and narrated by Robert Hardy, following the Browning poem exactly and told within the framework of a story told to a child by a cloaked stranger on a winter's evening outside the church where the Pied Piper's tale is painted on the great church window; after the story is told, the stranger reveals himself to be the Piper, who then vanishes. This version was shown on PBS.
  • In 1985, Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre adapted the story in the episode The Pied Piper of Hamelin, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer with original music by James Horner and starring Eric Idle in both the title role and as "Robert Browning". The story is told within the framework of a subplot in which Robert Browning tries to get a boy named Willie to go to sleep by telling him the story, and emphasizes the morality of always keeping promises. This is probably the closest live-action adaptation of the story to date, with all Browning's poetry kept intact and all the dialogue of the story in rhyme (with some expanding).
  • The 1985 Krysař was a stop-motion film animated by the Trnka Studio in Czechoslovakia and directed by Jiri Barta that used a modified, darker version of the story. It was told entirely without any discernible words.
• Warner Brothers cartoon star Porky Pig has starred as "The Pied Piper" twice, in the 1939 cartoon Pied Piper Porky (in which Pied Piper Porky rids Hamelin of all the rats except for one smart-aleck rat that refuses to leave) and in the 1949 cartoon Paying The Piper (in which the leader of Hamelin's cats, enraged at Pied Piper Porky's putting them out of work, dresses up as a giant rat to prove that Porky didn't get the job done and discredit him).
• The 1961 Warner Brothers cartoon The Pied Piper of Guadalupe uses Browning's poem as a plot device in which Sylvester the Cat, unable to capture mice the conventional way, reads Browning's poem, dresses up in the traditional Piper's costume (green this time instead of multi-colored) and uses a pipe/flute to hypnotize mice and lure them into being captured until Speedy Gonzales arrives, refuses to be hypnotized and rescues his friends.
• It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown was released direct-to-video in 2000 and was the last Peanuts special developed under Charles M. Schulz's supervision. In this version, Charlie Brown tells his sister Sally the story of The Pied Piper with some changes: the town infestation is mice (not rats, since Sally is scared of rats), Snoopy is the Pied Piper Beagle (playing a concertina instead of a pipe!), his bargain with the Mayor is for a year's supply of dog food, and when the bargain is broken he musically bewitches away the Mayor and his officials.
• Nevil Shute's novel Pied Piper was set in Nazi-occupied France and was only very loosely connected with the original story. It was filmed as The Pied Piper in 1942 and 1990. The 1990 film went directly to U.S. television instead of being shown in American theatres, and was retitled Crossing to Freedom for its U.S. telecast.
• Atom Egoyan's 1997 film The Sweet Hereafter (based on the novel by Russell Banks) makes extensive metaphorical use of the Pied Piper legend. Browning's poem forms the narration for the film, delivered by a young girl who was crippled in a school bus accident that killed all of the other children in her small Canadian town. The script adds several lines that are not in Browning's poem.
• Katy Towell's 2006 animated short El Despertar is based on the "Pied Piper" with a Spanish, darker influence, replacing the rats with zombies.

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Television

• An episode of Land of the Giants entitled "Pay the Piper" posited the Pied Piper as an alien and rather sinister entity, extremely long lived and possessing a constellation of powers that he used to kidnap children all over the galaxy. Jonathan Harris portrayed the Pied Piper.

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Recordings

• Gene Kelly narrated Robert Browning's poem in a 78rpm recording released in the 1950s on Columbia Records, later re-released in LP format on Harmony Records.
• Decca Records issued a 78rpm recording of the Browning poem read by Ingrid Bergman with music composed and directed by Victor Young.
• Boris Karloff performed a reading of The Pied Piper & The Hunting of the Snark, released on Caedmon Records.
• Radio personality Harry Von Zell narrated the story on the July 21, 1946 broadcast of Columbia Workshop.
• Keith Baxter is the narrator of The Pied Piper and Other Stories, recorded and released in 1994 by HarperCollins Publishing. Although the title on the cover attributes the story to Hans Christian Andersen, this version of The Pied Piper is most likely from The Brothers Grimm.
• Anton Lesser reads Browning's poem in the 1999 Naxos Audiobooks recording of The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Favorite Poems.

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Trivia

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Bob Gimby in 1967 as the "Paud Piper of Canada" playing his song - "Ca-na-da"

• In 1967 The song "Ca-na-da" was composed in celebration of Canada's centennial year. Composer Bobby Gimby earned the name Pied Piper of Canada as he commonly would be seen on television playing his horn whilst leading a following group of singing children.
• Minnesota liberal arts college Hamline University has The Piper as its mascot, due to the similarity of names (Hamline/Hamelin).
• The Hamlin Independent School District, serving the town of Hamlin, Texas, also has the Pied Piper as its mascot.
• Operation Pied Piper, the first of a series of evacuations during World War II which moved citizens out of the urbanised regions of Britain.
• The Pied Piper is a supervillain associated with the Flash in the DC Comics Universe. After being cured of deafness, Hartley Rathaway became obsessed with sound and learned to uses a flute to hypnotize his victims. Following the death of Barry Allen, Piper retired from crime and became an ally of Wally West.
• Mr Piper was a famous Canadian children's TV series made in 1962, featuring Canadian opera tenor Alan Crofoot dressed as a Pied Piper, who was telling stories, singing and doing magic.
• Just a Couple of Days, by Tony Vigorito, is a satirical story of biological warfare with a so-called "Pied Piper Virus." The book presents an interesting history of the Pied Piper legend, linking it to the medieval "Dancing Manias" (see also: St. John's Dance).
• In Extremo have recently put Goethe's verse to music in their song, "Der Rattenfänger" on their album, Sünder ohne Zügel.
• The band Demons & Wizards's song The Whistler is based on The Pied Piper.
• Megadeth created a song called "Symphony of Destruction" which refers to the Pied Piper.
• In the game Black & White by Lionhead Studios, a Pied-Piper-like character is seen luring a village's children into a cave. The player must then rescue the children or kill the Piper.
• R Kelly has long referred to himself as The Pied Piper of R&B. In light of his legal troubles involving underaged girls, the name has taken an ironic meaning.
• Mad Magazine artist Sergio Aragonés created a variation on the story, in a multipanel color cartoon on the back of one issue. When the town council refuses to pay the Pied Piper, he uses his flute to draw away not the children, but the women of Hamelin.
• In the Three Stooges short A Ducking They Did Go, Curly brings a bunch of ducks, marching behind him, to the duck club. Moe asks "Where did you get all the ducks?" Curly says, "Well, you remember the pie-eyed [sic] piper of Hamelin? Well, I figure if he could pipe rats pie-eyed, I could pipe ducks sober!"
• In the anime series MÄR, which features several characters based on fairy tales, a villain called Hamelin is based on The Piper.
• Rapper Eminem references paying the pied piper in his song "Lose Yourself."

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• Professor Ashliman of the University of Pittsburg quotes the Grimm's "Children of Hamelin" in full, as well as a number of similar and related legends.
• Linguistics Professor Jonas Kuhn's Pied Piper Page
• Wilson's Almanac article on the Pied Piper of Hamelin
• An 1888 illustrated version of Robert Browning's poem (Illustrated by Kate Greenaway)
• Ingrid Bergman reads The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• The Pied Piper at the Internet Movie Database
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1981) at the Internet Movie Database
• Faerie Tale Theater: The Pied Piper of Hamelin at the Internet Movie Database
• Krysař (1985) at the Internet Movie Database
• Pied Piper Porky (1939) at the Internet Movie Database
• Paying the Piper (1949) at the Internet Movie Database
• The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) at the Internet Movie Database
• www.triune.de cites the Lueneburg manuscript