Ratcatcher of Hamelin
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Rattenfänger von Hameln) is a German legend from 1284. A multicoloured ('pied') piper lured rats into the Weser River with his magic pipe; when the town refused payment, he returned on Saints John and Paul's day and led 130 children into a mountain cave (Koppenberg/Calvary), never to return. The earliest evidence is a c.