To be read before Spinning Silver.
Available in 1500 Eternal Masterpieces Of Fairy Tales.
To be read before Spinning Silver.
Available in 1500 Eternal Masterpieces Of Fairy Tales.
Not so much a fairy tale, more of a historic magazine article.
Worth a read though as it sets the stage for all later Pied Piper stories.
Click on picture for PDF file that’s a good sized font for reading on a Kindle.
Along with Perrault’s version, this was background reading for Christina Henry’s book: The Girl in Red.
While i don’t mind a bit of plagiarising, i do expect that when one does so that they have the ability to improve over the original. The Grimm’s don’t manage that.
Sadly, this is the version that most people in UK know, and most think it’s the original.