This week I am covering the tale of the Pied Piper. Most of us will remember this story from our childhoods, and while talking to a few of m y friends about it they remember the light version, but like every fairy tale or legend there is always a dark side to it.

My sources are :

Wikipedia

"Pied Piper Revisited"By Sheila Harty

The Pied Piper: A Handbook, Wolfgang Mieder

Emigration theory - Ursula Sautter, citing the work of linguist Jürgen Udolph

William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire

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