![]() Mass deaths due to Black Death were recorded elsewhere. ![]() The problem with this theory is that if the children were taken away by the Black Death or similar, surely it would have been recorded somewhere. The story of the Pied Piper suggests that the children were ‘taken’ away by the black death or similar, personified in the tale by a man in a pied (colourful) suit. THEORIES ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE PIED PIPER A creepy Pied Piper illlustration by, I think, a Russian illustrator? THE BLACK DEATH THEORY (Left, not ‘died’ or ‘were taken’.) Nothing else was written down - was it too painful to write more? Even today no one is quite sure why the children of Hamelin disappeared. It’s been written down in chronicles (in Latin language) that June 26 is when the children ‘left’. The window no longer exists - it was destroyed in 1660. This information comes from a stained glass window created for the church of Hamelin, which dates to around 1300 AD. June 26, 1284, is when 130 children left Hamelin. Hamelin is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. ![]()
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