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The Pied Piper
UNITED STATES · 1933

The Pied Piper

Wilfred Jackson
betrayal greed magical punishment rat infestation child abduction
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Synopsis

The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.

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