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**Background**: The Pied Piper was a piper clad in pied (colorful) clothes in Hamelin, Germany, in 1284. He came to help the town with its rat infestation.
After he rid them of the rats, the town refused to pay. The angry piper swore vengeance on the offending town. On Saint John and Paul's day, he played his pipe and lured all of the town's children out, where he led them away to a place unknown. //__The Amazing Ma____urice and his Educated Rodents__// was based off of this legend, incorporating many of the plot devices involved.