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** In the Robert Browning version, the narrator refers to [https://web.archive.org/web/20130926225742/http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/etext/piper/46.html a tribe in Transylvania who claim to have been descendants of the children whom the Piper had taken.]
* [[An Aesop]]: The common phrase, "time to pay the piper" is said to derive from this story. In a way, the story is a brutal allegory for what tends to happen to people who try to weasel their way out of an agreement or contract.
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Yes, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamelin
* [[The Cake Is a Lie]]: The town never intends to pay the Piper.
* [[Childless Dystopia]]:
* [[Disability Immunity]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: "You didn't pay your bills, so I'll kidnap your children."
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