Contributor(s): Author: Robert Browning Illustrator: Kate Greenaway The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the subject of a legend from the town of Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Middle Ages.
But then the citizens refuse to pay for this service, and he retaliates by using his instrument\'s magic.
The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicolored clothing, who was a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe.
Contributor(s): Author: Robert Browning Illustrator: Kate Greenaway The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the subject of a legend from the town of Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Middle Ages