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Literature | Pied Piper of Hamelin The Pied Piper was promised a reward if he would drive the rats and mice out of Hameln (Westphalia). This he did, for he gathered them together by his pipe, and then drowned them in the Weser. As the people refused to pay him, he next led the children to Koppelberg Hill, where 130 of them perished (July 22nd, 1376). (See Hatto .) "To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled ... And ere three notes his pipe had uttered ... Out of the houses rats came tumbling- Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, And step by step they followed him dancing, Till they came to the river Weser." Robert Browning. Hameln, on the river Hamel, is where the Rattenfänger played this prank. It is said that the children did not perish in the mountain, but were led over it to Transylvania, where they formed a German colony. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957) Pied Piper of Hamelin (1903) | |
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Expression using "PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN": the pied piper of hamelin. Additional references. | |
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the pied piper of hamelin | 20 |
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| Language | Translations for "PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | el flautista de hamelín (the pied piper of hamelin). (various references) | |
Turkish | fareli köyün kavalcısı (pied piper). (various references) | |
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