The Pied Piper of Hamelin
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- In 1284, the town of Hamelin, Germany was overrun by rats, that pillaged food supply, attacked people, and spread plague throughout the town. The people's prayers are answered in the form of the Pied Piper, whose magical pipe and songs lead the rats away from the town. But trouble begins to brew when the town's officials refuse to pay the Piper his promised price!
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my mother used to tell me this story as a child and when she told the tale while most of the town did not want to honor the bargain one woman who had a crippled child was spared because she gave what little gold she could even though she didnt have much
is there a name for the flute tune thats played in the backround i really like it and id like to hear more ?
Pied Piper is a cautionary tale about doing commissions without upfront payment
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And tells a lot about human nature: as soon as something has been done, human nature unfortunately disrespects the work done and finds multible reasons to not fulfill an agreement. Moral
Scary yet it’s true
If the mayor just pay the piper then maybe the kids would be spared (it would be tough without the food and such for everyone though we’re not so sure what’s gonna happen next)
Yes and always pay what is owed.
And don’t offer to pay more than you can afford.
A wonderful tale! Despite these being such well-known parts of Western culture I don't recall ever seeing a video about this one til now. Very well done!
In one version of the story the lame child did make it to the mountain where the piper and the other children went. But the entrance closed before he could go with them. Supposedly he spent the rest of his life waiting outside the entrance hoping to go in. A tragic tale to be certain 🥺
LMFAO HAHAHHAAH
@@Necromancyrthat was rude
That matches with the theory that the piper was a subscription agent trying to find settlers for waste lands. Only strong and young people (the town's children is ment metaphorically) were wanted because settling is a hard business. An old German saying says: "Death for the first (generation), poverty for the second and bread for the third" (Dem Ersten der Tod, dem Zweiten die Not, dem dritten das Brot).
This is always an interesting tale for me because this is a good example of an anti hero. I don't blame the Pied Pier for wanting revenge I would want some to but I won't lead kids to an unknown place. It's always important to respect and give honor to wear honor is due.
Antihero? I couldn’t disagree more. Straight up villain is what the piper is. The guy murders 135 innocent children because he didn’t get paid for a job, a job he price gouged in the extreme- taking advantage of a desperate town. 1000 guilders in that time was a huge sum of money- several years worth of salary for a skilled worker. And he charged that for a day’s worth of work. Instead of taking legal action or seeking recourse through proper channels, he kidnaps and murders children. But you don’t blame him? The guy is evil beyond comprehension. Like Ted Bundy or BTK or Timothy McVeigh. An equivalence would be: A hurricane is barreling toward a small town, and one resident has a stockpile of plywood, and he’s the only one with supplies that can do the job before the storm hits. So he charges $250 a sheet because the town is desperate. After the storm the town owes the guy $150,000 but doesn’t have the funds available. So on the next school day the guy grabs a couple AR-15’s and goes to the local Kindergarten and Pre-k school and indiscriminately murders everyone on the premises. I wouldn’t label that person a an antihero.
This story needs a really good horror/drama adaptation with great supernatural elements
I agree. Would love to see it.
Hameln is a very beautiful city and the tale is very known in my area, i live not very far away from the city 😄
greetings from germany 😋
you can actually find small bronze rats in the city of hamelin today. If you follow them, theyre actually lead you to the weser river :)
I was studying in Germany one summer and met a guy from Hamelin! I was thrilled.
Years ago I was writing a Don Quixote fan fic series which had a more high-fantasy slant involving Don Quixote with various story book-inspired characters and supernatural adventures. In one of them he took a quest to rescue the children kidnapped by a mysterious drifter using a magical flute, which was part of a slate of enchanted McGuffins pointing toward the antagonist enchantress.
Cool presentation, The Pied Piper is one of my favorite fairy tales!
Do you maybe have a Link or something? Sounds really interesting 👍
No links. They mostly exist as scattered notes and outlines written on OpenOffice docs. I started writing it many years ago when I was an older teenager, so the quality was fairly rough. It's something I think about a lot though, especially after watching this video; kind of reignited my attention to it. I always wanted to tone of the series to be on the lighter side and more or less family-friendly, but I'm considering adding some mildly lovecraftian elements, particularly relating to the ultimate BBEG.
@@GarrettFruge that would be really cool. Maybe you want to get into it again and publish it sometime.
To anyone intersted in this character, I would recommend a book The Pied Piper by Viktor Dyk, it is written in a really catchy way. And I also have a fun fact I read on Wikipedia: In Hamelin town records it was mentioned something about their children leaving.
Fantastic telling of this classic Grimm tale! It's one of my favorites, and it was a delight to listen to you tell it here. Thank you for the wonderful video!!
Funny thing about the story of the pied piper, it's talked about like a fairy tale, but it was based on a true story. Unlike other grim stories.
exactly! There are written records of this happening, a date and even the street on which the children were last seen. Music and dancing is strictly forbidden on that street
Drusus germanicus, the bungelosen are his little pigs (twin bell - hamels)
The funny thing is, there seems to be a bit of truth to the story. Around 1300, an inscription was made in the town's church to commemorate the sudden disappearance of 130 children in 1284. Theory is that the young townsfolk were taken away by settlers, who wanted manpower for their newly founded settlements in the east. This was later merged with the legend of the pied piper, which was originally another, unrelated legend.
Wow. Wonder what happened.
Such a great channel. I grew up studying and continue to study all of these stories. I’m particularly interested in Slavic, Celtic and Scandinavian stories as they are of my people, but you bring such a wide array no one else has. Good on you, and good for us. Myths teach, an the young ones need to be taught. Please never call it quits.
The scary thing about this story is we have no knowledge of what happened to the children.
In the original poem, at the end, it says that a far away group of people claimed they were descended from the missing children.
Im not sure why but I always thought he drowned them like the rats
The children obviously died. It is a metaphor of death and disease which was caused by the rats... I assume Black plague.
They actually died from starvation waiting for the so called meracle to come which never did smh
In reality, unfortunately those 130 kidnapped children may have been sold into slavery to repopulate a wiped out Eastern Europe from the Mongols. It’s only a theory of course but it is probable
Sounding great! Love the grim fairy tales. Please do more of them
I loved this tale as a kid love more as an adult fully understanding it now
I remember this story. Thanks for posting this.😊
This story is one of the first stories I remember hearing in my childhood. something it feels so surreal.
Very good video!! In other versions of the story the Pied Piper ransoms the children and once he is paid the amount that was promised him, he sends them back.
I had always read that there was a single rat left behind (either because it was blind, deaf, or lame, just like the child left behind) and the city fathers used that as an excuse to get out of paying the Piper
In one version, the Piper was portrayed as heroic for stealing the kids, because they would've grown up dishonest and greedy like their parents
As someoone who grew up in/around Hamelin, I can add that the myth was created in response to a mass exodus of young people from the city. Labor was in short supply, so the young left to other settlemets in search of work places. Needless to say, the people apparently didn't take it very well.
Awesome video my friend! And what a powerful allegory, as well! I had heard of the Pied Piper, but until now, I hadn't known of it's significance. I love your overall concept, great narration & presentation, & well researched! Very educational. Thank you for that! Keep these coming!🌍🌈
I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers. You're bringing back the legends of old!
I wish this could continue with the billions of dishonest folk on earth. A very beautiful cautionary tale. I make it my business to learn new positive things each day. Thanks for uploading.
A lesson in retribution indeed. Makes you wonder which dimension the children entered! 🤔
My friend has rats everywhere! And a tame hawk (also 2 bald eagles) she named it Piper lol
Rats can swim! I do appreciate the "fake news" aspect by the people After he completed the task! Sounds so familiar!
Forgot to mention that playing a flute has since then, been illegal in Hamelin.
Hearing all this talk about Hamelin reminds me of Better Call Saul 😂
Hey brother, I love this channel and it's content, I have a recommendation along with the video in TH-cam, can you please upload these in Spotify as Podcast.
Interesting story. I never knew much of the lore of the Pied Piper outside of just the name. Makes me wonder what he did with the children. Were their fates the same as the rats? Did he make them fall off the mountain? I guess we'll never know.
In some versions he leads the kids away until they settle what is now Transylvania.
@@barneynedward Really now? Fascinating!
@@darnelltucker9163 There was some fascinating research on that. The earliest version of the story is from Hamelin itself, from 1384, noting the hundredth anniversary of the piper leading their children away - there are a few others of that kind of age, but none so precise. The interesting thing is that none of them mention the rats - the rats only come into the story in the fifteenth century. And the version where the rats debut has another detail, which didn't become part of the story's final form - the town's adults saw the children leave and made no attempt to stop them.
So there was this historian who thought what if that detail was true, and whether there was some reason why the people of Hamelin in 1284 would not think a piper leading the children away from town was anything to worry about. And she found two. First was a Bavarian midsummer festival where a piper would lead a town's children around local landmarks. And the second was the settlement drive @barneyedward mentioned, where the recruiters also announced themselves via pipes.
At first she wondered if the children had simply followed the wrong piper, although if that was the case, there's no reason he wouldn't bring them back as soon as he realised the mistake. But if there was a plan to *traffic* the children to build up settlements to the east, then someone could pretend to be this year's midsummer piper, and lead them into a trap. It becomes a tragedy that scars the town - and two hundred years later, people telling it, who have forgotten the original circumstances, add the rats to the story in an attempt to make sense of it (and as a reason why it couldn't happen to *their* town).
I enjoyed Once Upon A Time show's idea to combine the Pied Piper with Peter Pan and it was his pan flute that spirited them away as lost kids to Neverland.
Wonderful tale
Would like to hear the full version of the flute in the background
Search, Feral Flute.
underrated channel
You're greedy and dishonest
And it really is a shame
That your innocent children will grow to be the same
That' my favorite line from Disney's Pied Piper short
Great video.
I write can't wait for a new story and missed this one 🤦🏻♀️In Germany lol😁i heard the story ,but hearing it from you it's great 🖐🥰❤🖤‼
huh guess the story i heard was alter from the original story then. Because the version i remember was the piper return the children after they paid him. Well this is why i like this channel I get to hear multiple stories in their original tell or stories i never knew
Can you do one of Pinocchio ? Speaking of which, the diabolical Coachman kinda resembles the infamous Pied Piper.
There were many different variations of the tale. Some say he used the children as collateral so he was properly paid. (Friendly version.)
Some say that he was a sorcerer of sorts. And his pipe had powers that were able to turn the townsfolk into rats… Then drowned as well. Only leaving behind an old fisherman and an infant as the sole survivors of Hamlin. (Dark version.)
Few say it was a story made up by an unknown person. As it grew popularity and shared among the world as an immortal tale. (Harmless version.
Bard Mages are never appreciated.
A very known tale in Germany. To this day, the Town of Hameln counts year and day since their loss of their children..
Great story
Good 👍
Time to pay the piper
And the people of Hamelin know to this day, one must always pay the piper
I was in a play about the Pied Piper years ago as a townsperson and to be honest, I hated it. I didn’t like the story because the ending was sad and heartbreaking. I understand now why it happened, but always wondered what happened to the kids. If they had been taken to a better land for happiness, good for them. Otherwise, I just hope the parents wised up and paid the man his due.
Sometimes the mysterious ending is better to hear than the straight forward ending. Yes it's sad and more than a little scary but it wouldn't really feel the same if we knew what happened. Like in "The Lady or the Tiger", that ends on a significant cliffhanger, it feels like if we knew what happened, then the impact of the story would be lost!
I never felt the ending was sad. I always thought it was fun for the kids to leave and go to somewhere magical.
Oh Wow This went grim, never heard the proper story!! Pay the Piper I guess!
Fairly accurate. I don't understand the picture at 1:30 though. It is not about Hamelin at all. There even is a coast.
Looks like a Bosch painting to me
Germany here: Well... he was no charlatan as it worked and he did not bring in the rats. And the true conclusion of this tale is that you should pay your bills. Not necessarily upfront but at least pay them in time! 😉
I find it hard to believe 130 kids just marching out the village without being seen or heard by anyone. The families probably gave the kids away that they couldn’t support
Perhaps the Piper's song kept the adults asleep while it enchanted the kids.
@@ScionStorm1 exactly
Hey, get the money up front.
Pipin' ain't easy!!
"Dressed in pied garb" so that's why they call him the Pied Piper. What exactly is "pied garb" anyway?
Colourful clothing.
dark-red scarlet Mars juggler Michael
bright-white wool Venus magician Samael
yellow-green gold Mercurius messenger Gabriel
blue azur Ouranos healer Uriel
black zorro Saturn hider Saturiel
pied garb is bunte farben like black pete and josephs cloak that made his brothers upset,
pied is for the king (prince), white is for the priest (santa) ; the wicked and the pious.
My favorite legend
You know this reminds me of the time I saw a clip of a rodent infestation where the ground was absolutely covered in them.
I found a gem!
Tune that is happy yet sad??
You've never been so happy, you shed tears?
Maybe he thought they said brats.
Hahahahahaaha
Is there a video about Bluebeard?
Skaven invasion.
-1284 CE, Colorized
rebellion of the rhine legions under Tiberius princeps. the rebels were pandered into submission by Drusus germanicus
I wonder if the bodies of the children and pied piper were ever found.
the ashes of Drusus germanicus were brought to Rome by his widow. The remains of his Twin were brought back to Rome by their brother Caligula. Santa's coming to town.
I guess they learned their lesson on not trusting the Pied Piper.
The piper put his trust in the town. And they broke it. They also insultingly devalued him because he was good at his job and spread slanderous rumours to avoid paying. Wherever the kids were taken, they could be better off than growing up in a degenerate town like that.
@@ScionStorm1 Okay I was wrong then.
Damn I never knew he never returned the kids lol. This one is much better
What does CE stand for?
Common Era!
The pied piper is what we are doing for the pendle hill musical
My childhood memories
if it was in 1284 it was early for plague
A connection to the plague is not proven. The website of Hamelin says it could be about something else, like the people (= children of the city) being enlisted for war.
His Official Birthday 🎉🎂 is June 22!!
I’m from Hameln and it’s not a tale there records that 130 children were missing after the pied piper wasn’t paid
If someone can cause things to willfully drown with sound, maaaaybe don't mess with em.
In our world all children vanish also for some mysterious reason although they fysically grow up and keep walking around. Their souls have gone and became known as adults.
I looked up about the moral message of the story and that’s to never be ungrateful nor allow children to follow suit. Glad the pipe piper made those back stabbers and stingy people. See what it meant that not only is nobody working for free. It’s also being truthful for how grateful they can help when somebody has reached the end of their ropes. And the fact that they didn’t promise to pay him the money that he initially fixed the rat infestation it goes to show you that you’ll fail to take something for granted.
Just under $550 USD today. Quite a bargain, no?
Moral of the story: when someone offer you a job ask for money first or else you will meet the same fate as the Piper.
Some say that the Pied Piper was an allegory of the Black Plague.
That Was in the video
Its the vermintide
Well you could say he’s Mr. Waternoose
Was there ever a story of what really happened to the children instead of them just disappearing and never seen again
I wondered about that myself. Crazy that the Hamelin was able to move on after that. Figured they'd look for the Pied Piper and try to pay him for their kids' return.
There is a theory that the base for the story of the pied piper was a man who offered the young people in Hamlin land further east (Poland or even Romania) and that they went there. There were several waves of German settlers moving east for new land.
@@cayreet5992 Wow. That's interesting. Thanks for the info. I like mythology and I'm interested in learning new things.
@@cayreet5992 makes sense if it was teens, but 5 & 7 year olds nope
I believe the story is even darker than the tale itself 🫤 In 1284 Hamelin was devastated, its people, who didn’t have even what to eat, had no resources to pay their taxes, but the government would not forgive. Seeking for an alternative, there was a meeting with the council at close doors, where the proposition was for people to pay their taxes with the only wealth they had: their own children 😮 The councillor, a man who had contacts, suggested the parents to send their children to the governor of a promising land, which was prospering and demanding workforce, and there they would have more opportunities. In exchange they would be forgiven their debts and receive resources to carry on with their lives in Hamelin or restart from zero. People were horrified, however the majority agreed with this idea, stating that they had no alternative, so they began to advise: ‘leave it up to the councillor’. The accord was made and the children were taken, to never be seen again. Some parents couldn’t bear the remorse to know that the true is that those children were sold to slavery, and drowned themselves in the river. But many others endured the reality and carried on, re building the economy in the village. However they were always ashamed, so they made a deal to never ever tell anyone about the tragic facts, which was kept forever in secret since that meeting in close doors, that marked their lives forever, which took place in the village church, where the first record of the Pied Piper tale was found, as a stained painting in its window glass. A tale that was created to cover the true facts, so the people could get on with their consciences. A tale that forever haunted the village of Hamelin.
That story remind to pay for due when the due is done
The way ii ss told here seems like a tail made by money lenders to make sure they get paid back.
Who is this today?
LGBTQ?
Pandera (a pander or pandur, a mercenary) a wanderer (latin pandere = to scatter, to crumb)
an exiled bandit , bandalero, desperado .
all who ask receive, all who seek shall find and to those who knock..the door will be opened. analogias ..
Is this Piper has anything to do with Hindu god Krishna as both holds flute
Robin Hood (al cappa/ el capone) to compare is the Lord of the Horn (cornelius) is EL canna or Elkana (al Qava) is Conan the barbarian (cone, conus is shaft, point, horn) is Pantera/kamtza ; a wanderer and deceiver aka Elymas (elias/ helios). You see any similarities ? Connection to the Twin (boanerges) ?
Cornelius is to compare with dhul Qarnain of the Quran. twin is majui and majui, malik and sadiq, marzuk and yaqub, sons of Abraha/ zebedee (mercury, hermes).
Elkanah or shortly EL is the lord of judgement, measurement. A reed is an ancient measure tool but an hollow reed is also a flute. Kanah is hebrew for zeal / jealousy. In the new testament a pun is made with the wedding at Cana were hollow cans (empty jars) symbolizes the 'scattered elects' far off abroad. Canna is vase, vessel , container . Cappa is lid, cover, cloak, cape.
Jethro Tull 🤗
This is the darker version...in Disney's version the piper makes a giant 🧀 appear for the 🐀 🐀 ...for the children he opens a path thru a mountain leading to toyland...Disney just lightened up his version
Disney took a traditional grim fairy tale and made it more light-hearted? You don't say? In other news, water is wet, the sun is hot, and shoelaces have always been impossible to keep tied consistantly.
@drakekondrat799 That's right...Disney always tones down the darker versions of classic stories to be more kid friendly
Quran ; and we gave him a way (path, fate) to follow
How old was I when I heard this story🤔
How would we know???
Corn in 13th century Europe?
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ஒரே ஸ்வர்க்கம் 🫶 எந்தன் உள்ளம் ⚫️ வாராய் 👁🙌💔
amanda the adventurer fans:
l o r e .
childrens.
wtf
bro cg5s song pied piper the brand in the game amanda the adventurer hamlin why does it be a like vtrhrdftf..........i am speechless
Not gonna lie, I'm on the piper's side.
I don't blame pied piper cuz poeple in town agree to give money first. They refuse after they were save
They probably tried to pay him in "exposure". Happens to artists who work on commissions sadly.
1 of the 1st Anti- heroes of folklore.
Occult symbolism.
Have been given this nickname before. I now understand what it means. Generally nice but if you don't appreciate the work I do and don't pay me. 😃🤣🤣😃😎😎.
This is what happens when you don't pay what you owe.
Cheapskates...got what they deserved
thats cain or lucifer lol
satan