: About Me

REALITY BECOMES MYTH: THE PIED PIPER Many stories begin somewhere vague "Once upon a time," but the Pied Piper story has an exact place and date. Exactly 130 children disappeared. The precision suggests an actual event, but what? The earliest reference to the story is a notation on a mid-15th century manuscript: In Hamelin in the year 1284, and on the [26 June] feast day of Saints John and Paul, there occurred a wondrous event. A young man of about thirty years, handsome and well-clothed so that all who saw admired him, entered Hamelin by the Weser Gate. He began piping through town on a m...