The Origin Of The Tale

The Pied Piper Of Hamelin ,also known as Rattenfänger von Hameln in German, is a myth in the town of Hamelin, Lowe Saxony, Germany .In the period of the middle age regarding the disappearance and or death of a large number of children.The story may reflect a historical story of which the town of Hamelin lost its children.It has been theorized that the pied piper is a symbol of the children's death possibly due to the black plague or a major catastrophe. There are also many other theory suggesting otherwise, but the current theory which is accepted by scholars and historian is that the disappearance of the children are because they have depart the town of Hamelin the Ostsiedlung, also known as the German Eastward Expansion. In which the germans left their home to colonize Eastern Europe.