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AmelieTheBretzel :
Hamlin town hurts my brain. Was "Hameln" too complicated?
2024-07-02 05:15:18
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Samantha Mccoy :
I’m sorry-a CHILDRENS CRUSADE?!
2024-07-02 00:54:25
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Pusti 🍉 :
as a German I died a little every time you said town 😭
2024-09-20 15:23:20
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gajdziaznadrzeki :
what were the surnames that travelled east? I'm from Poland and this tale is a very common children's tale, coincidence? 👀
2024-07-02 00:19:50
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🖤❤️💛.... ❤️🩹 :
Unfortunately it's only available in German, it was a series on the German channel ZDF called "the truth behind our fairy tales" the flute player of Hamelin was one of the fairy tales covered and according to the German historians the dance plague is not the basis of the whole thing. It was plague time hence the story with the rats and mice. At the same time, however, there were also so-called "Landwerber". They promised the poor farmers land and a livelihood in Eastern Europe. That's why many 1
2024-07-19 08:18:29
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ZeldasMissingLink :
Fun theories but if it happened in 1284 then it’s about 60 years to early for the Black Death or the dancing plague, they both started in the mid 14th century (1300s)
2024-09-13 12:29:29
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greenybeany13 :
Hamlintown? It’s just Hamlin, why add the town on the end?🤷🏻♀️
2024-07-02 08:58:38
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finiquero :
I hate to ask the obvious question, but why were you reading that story to your kid?!
2024-07-02 03:17:35
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Kay :
if the story is a parable why would there be a literal reference to the mystery in the town record?
2024-07-02 10:56:03
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Michael Pallada :
I'm from The Netherlands and I read that as a kid 😳😅. Here it's called 'De rattenvanger van Hamelen'.
2024-08-12 09:55:02
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kinda buggy ngl :
dancing plague was one of my favorite Wikipedia rabbit holes
2024-07-02 00:10:53
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Clare ☺️💕 :
yea I thought the dancing plague was from a fungus found in flour? so fascinating either way, but yes the pied piper story is a horrific one 😰
2024-07-01 23:42:21
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Miri :
Wait is the dancing plague also the origin of the red shoes fairytale?
2024-07-02 01:44:46
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Random acts of Julia :
I always wondered why he wasn’t considered a serial shmiller
2024-07-02 01:05:16
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Sue🍉 :
Hamlin town? It’s the Pied Piper of Hamlin, not Hamlin town?
2024-08-11 09:06:29
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IrgendSoEinTyp :
TIL that Hameln is called Hamlin town in English for some reason
2024-07-22 09:03:11
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eyrieowl :
learned about ergotism from an excellent episode of The X-Files :)
2024-07-02 01:54:59
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The Loremoth :
"hamlintown" and "macobbrah" are killing me. It's just Hamelin and Macabre is pronounced ma-cahb.
2024-07-02 12:53:25
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Marc Yeti :
But there is also a theory about a migration movement to the east of Germany
2024-07-15 06:45:35
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Stoic Barbarian :
are you sure it's called th rat catcher's house. .. and not the rathaus? because rathaus means city hall in German
2024-07-02 01:53:50
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CarraMia :
So what you're saying is that footloose is a retelling of history yore?
2024-07-01 23:41:42
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Line :
I'm German and into Folklore, Fairytales and mythology and this is so my lane. There is a book by Kai Meyer which takes place shortly after this incident. It's fictional but quite good.
2024-07-23 04:48:49
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Kathryn :
Has there been a Doctor Who episode about this yet?? I mean it practically writes itself
2024-07-02 19:36:53
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MJ :
I can't believe I got married on Pied Piper day. happy anniversary to us!
2024-07-02 08:45:59
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vixylhunter :
I only learnt of it as hailing but yeah there's one take that kids moved to the cities so the story is metaphorical
2024-07-02 00:09:13
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