The Pied Piper of Hamelin is not a story.
 The Pied Piper may never have existed as such, but, says the professor, "There were characters known as lokators who roamed northern Germany trying to recruit settlers for the East
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

