The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a story.
Other versions relate that the Pied Piper led the children to the top of Koppelberg Hill, where he took them to a beautiful land, or a place called Koppenberg Mountain, or Transylvania, or that he made them walk into the Weser as he did with the rats, and they all drowned
In Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter (1997), the myth of the Pied Piper is a metaphor for a towns failure to protect its children

