WHO IS THE PIED PIPOER CON’T:

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…There have also been stories that a few months after the disappearance of the children, bodies of children were found underneath the trees in a nearby forest, suggesting that the Pied Piper could actually have been a real person who killed the children.

The bottom line, the Pied Piper is a dark character who was not “nice” to kids.

WHO IS THE PIED PIPER?

In 1284, while the town of Hamelin was suffering from a rat infestation, a man dressed in colourful garments appeared, claiming to be a rat-catcher. He promised the townsmen a solution for their problem with the rats. The townsmen in turn 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. 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 26, 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 of what had happened when they came out of the church.

Other versions (but not the traditional ones) claim that the Piper lured the children into the river and let them drown like the rats or that he returned the children after the villagers paid several times the original amount of gold.

No, that was Usher that lived with Diddy for a while.