Tuesday, June 26, 2007
This Day in the History of Alegorical Evil
On this day in 1284, a piper dressed in a red and yellow diamond pattern, lured 130 children out of the Saxon village of Hameln and none of them were ever seen again. The Grimm Brothers wrote down this story as a Deutsche Märchen in 1816. William Manchester, in A World Lit Only by Fire, called the pied piper a psychopath and a pederast, but no one knows where he got his information. The rat and non-payment meme were added later.
Labels: Pied Piper of Hameln
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:10 AM 
