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Lambeth Drill News :
I bet it was a trafficker and the story got cartoonified over centuries
2026-10-30 15:02:17
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Lauren Wonacott :
The piper was a plague that took the children and came and went with the rats
2026-11-05 14:23:49
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zxzz :
They died,the piper symbolize death. When in a story you have a mysterious character, with vague or no origins,that appears out of nowhere and ask for a fair price for their services (money in exchange of getting rids of rats),well that always symbolize death. As a matter of fact it is said that this fairytale was inspired by a real life event, during a plague, the adults refused to take that seriously and spend money to take care of the rats and the children were the first to die,since they're weaker.
2026-10-31 10:34:08
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🦇⛓️ RenaRocks ⛓️🦇 :
I thought he drowned them
2026-10-31 11:40:55
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The SAO connoisseur :
he led them of a cliff, I don't know what version you read, but he explicitly lead them of a cliff
2026-11-01 00:30:18
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CBwrites :
Wait…. The pied piper was actually a story about a man luring away kids and not driving away rats…
2026-11-04 00:17:56
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gracenelson_ :
I thought he was a metaphor for the plague
2026-10-31 12:08:17
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Aur …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ :
Didn't he lead them off a cliff? I've heard another version where he trapped them in the same cave he'd kept the rats in, then left them there to starve. The rats, having nothing else to eat, eventually turned on them. Sounds like something straight out of a fucked-up German fairy tale.
2026-10-31 07:51:07
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The_Godfather :
He locked them in a mountain until he got he’s payment
2026-10-31 02:08:05
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¹.♧ѵαíղҽ➶.˚✧ :
one theory i have is that the pied piper didnt get paid for his job of taking away rats or smth, so he took the children of hamelin and sold their parts/bodyparts/organs something like that.
2026-10-29 20:25:48
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bells :
HISTORICALLY we think the piper represents an eastern European recruiter bringing young western Europeans back to the east to properly get the agriculturalal reform going, I believe. not as dark as the actual story haha
2026-10-31 12:50:37
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Kitch_X_Ash :
I thought he led them to a river and they drowned
2026-11-01 17:34:08
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12 :
on his island
2026-10-27 10:46:01
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BoosterGold :
wait the pied piper was a real dude
2026-11-05 14:27:45
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Leo 礼生🦇 :
historians have said that they think he persuaded them to settle in east germany or translvania because they have found matching family names that appear centuries after
2026-11-01 08:21:56
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me_ne.so :
The piper symbolize death, the mice are the plauge and the children are the victims. The story shows how death makes no exceptions for anyone, whether they are as innocent as the children or as dishonest as the parents who refused to pay the piper.
2026-11-02 15:38:04
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marimba seif :
Pennywise in 1284?!
2026-11-04 06:43:23
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𝓜𝓪𝓲𝓪 :
idk but in like year 2 we did a play about this and they had too many children so I was a hippy rat
2026-11-02 23:00:52
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bumble :
over the hill and far away ✌
2026-11-02 12:57:49
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LANCELOT_701 :
a rumour I saw in a book, he was assumed to be a cannibal 😭and they made a reference to that in a cartoon
2026-11-01 08:07:10
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Forgotten in 60 :
The emigration theory makes the most sense to me - that he was really a recruiter leading families east, and the story got twisted over the centuries. Still wild that Hamelin used that date as the start of their town calendar.
2026-10-29 22:14:44
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7coulance :
Weapons
2026-11-01 10:32:22
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RobbieRob :
There's different versions with different endings, from what I remember one version had the piper taking the children to paradise, another version had him take them into a mountain and I think there was one version where he took the children to Hell.
2026-10-31 09:37:40
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Art of Dubs - Car Scene uk :
Historical evidence confirms that a real event took place in the town of Hamelin around June 26, 1284. Town records, town hall inscriptions, and church stained-glass windows dating back to the 14th century explicitly reference the sudden loss of 130 local children or young people. Notably, the rat infestation element was only added to the legend centuries later. Historians and researchers generally lean toward four plausible theories regarding what actually occurred: Mass Migration: Young adults voluntarily migrated east following a colourful recruitment agent (locator) to settle new territories during the Ostsiedlung. Military Campaign: The town's young men were conscripted into a local military battle or crusade and never returned. Epidemic Disease: The piper was an allegory for Death during a fatal disease outbreak that wiped out the local youth. Dancing Mania: Mass hysteria or ergot poisoning caused a crowd of youths to dance uncontrollably out of town into danger.
2026-11-01 08:25:45
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Funkoduck51 :
Somone told me he took them to a bear cave and rolled a boulder over the exit
2026-10-31 09:12:11
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