In 1284, while the town of Hamelin was suffering from a rat infestation, a piper dressed in multicoloured ("pied") clothing appeared, claiming to be a rat-catcher. He promised the mayor a … 展开

Literature
• ಬೊಮ್ಮನಹಳ್ಳಿಯ ಕಿಂದರ ಜೋಗಿ (Kondara Jogi of Bommanahalli) by the Kannada poet-laureate Kuvempu is a poetic adaptation of the story.
• In 1803, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote a poem based on … 展开

The present-day city of Hamelin continues to maintain information about the Pied Piper legend and possible origins of the story on its website. … 展开

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 … 展开

Natural causes
A number of theories suggest that children died of some natural causes such as disease or starvation, and that the Piper was a symbolic figure of Death. Analogous themes which are associated with this theory include the 展开

In linguistics, pied-piping is the common name for the ability of question words and relative pronouns to drag other words along with them when … 展开

• Children's literature portal
• Hamelen (TV series)
• Hamline University, whose mascot is the Pied Piper
• List of literary accounts of the Pied Piper 展开