Men and Women (1855, "Love Among the Ruins", " Evelyn Hope", "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", " Andrea del Sarto", " Fra Lippo Lippi", " A Toccata of Galuppi's") Most Piper species are either herbaceous or vines; some grow as shrubs or almost as small trees. A few species, commonly called "ant pipers" (e.g. Piper cenocladum), live in a mutualism with ants. The fruit of the Piper plant, called a peppercorn when it is round and pea-sized, as is usual, is distributed in the wild mainly by birds, but small fruit-eating mammals – e.g. bats of the genus Carollia – are also important. Despite the high content of chemicals that are noxious to herbivores, some have evolved the ability to withstand the chemical defences of pepper plants, for example the sematurine moth Homidiana subpicta or some flea beetles of the genus Lanka. The latter can be significant pests to pepper growers.

The window is generally considered to have been created in memory of a tragic historical event for the town; Hamelin town records also apparently start with this event. The earliest written record is from the town chronicles in an entry from 1384 which reportedly states: "It is 100 years since our children left." [12] [13]

Kadushin, Raphael. "The grim truth behind the Pied Piper". www.bbc.com . Retrieved 28 October 2020.

The Hameln Museum – The Pied Piper in Literatur and Arts: The Children's Exodus" (in German) . Retrieved 16 December 2021. The 1995 anime film Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie contained a character who used magic flute to hypnotize children and make them follow him, similar to the Pied Piper Decan Lude of Hamelin was reported c. 1384 to have in his possession a chorus book containing a Latin verse giving an eyewitness account of the event. [15] [ further explanation needed] 15th-century Lüneburg manuscript [ edit ] Ratcatcher, a 2022 song by GWAR, has GWAR's lead singer take credit for being the Piper and stealing the children when their bill went unpaid. painting of the Pied Piper copied from the glass window of Marktkirche in Hamelin Postcard "Gruss aus Hameln" featuring the Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1902

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In 1284, while the town of Hamelin was suffering from a rat infestation, a piper dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing appeared, claiming to be a rat-catcher. He promised the mayor a solution to their problem with the rats. The mayor, in turn, promised to pay him for the removal of the rats (the promised sum was 1,000 guilders). The piper accepted and played his pipe to lure the rats into the Weser River, where all the rats drowned. [4] Although research has been conducted for centuries, no explanation for the historical event is universally accepted as true. In any case, the rats were first added to the story in a version from c. 1559 and are absent from earlier accounts. [14] 14th-century Decan Lude chorus book [ edit ] It is believed that no one has owned and raced more competition Ferraris than David Piper. In an in-depth interview with Motorsport Magazine, he mentions owning six 250 GTOs and 250 LMs over the years. Montagne, Prosper (2001). Larousse Gastronomique. Hamlyn. p.726. ISBN 978-0-600-60235-4. OCLC 47231315. "Mill". Others have suggested that the children left Hamelin to be part of a pilgrimage, a military campaign, or even a new Children's Crusade (which is said to have occurred in 1212) but never returned to their parents. These theories see the unnamed Piper as their leader or a recruiting agent. The townspeople made up this story (instead of recording the facts) to avoid the wrath of the church or the king. [46]