Definition and classification -- "The pied piper" as folktale -- Origin of "The pied piper" -- History and dissemination -- Significance and survival -- The phrase "to pay the piper" -- "The pied piper" as ambivalent symbol -- Examples and texts --...
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Definition and classification -- "The pied piper" as folktale -- Origin of "The pied piper" -- History and dissemination -- Significance and survival -- The phrase "to pay the piper" -- "The pied piper" as ambivalent symbol -- Examples and texts -- Early variants of "The pied piper" -- "The pied piper" and the Brothers Grimm -- Later variants of the folktale -- The English "Pied piper" tradition -- "Pied piper" folk songs -- Scholarship and approaches -- Comprehensive studies -- Historical analyses -- Folkloristic investigations -- Literary reconsiderations -- Contexts -- Robert Browning's "Pied piper" poem -- "Pied piper" poems -- Prose, drama, music, and film adaptations -- Caricatures, cartoons, and comic strips -- Art, cards, stamps, and puzzles -- The pied piper in advertisements -- "Pied piper" book titles and headlines -- The folklorism of Hamelin
