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* [[Adult Fear]]: He takes the children. [[Nightmare Fuel|All the children]]. [[Fridge Horror|What did he do with them all?]]
* [[Adult Fear]]: He takes the children. [[Nightmare Fuel|All the children]]. [[Fridge Horror|What did he do with them all?]]
** Some people believe this story is based on the [http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/the-childrens-crusade.htm Children's Crusades] which happened around the time period the story is set.
** Some people believe this story is based on the [http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/the-childrens-crusade.htm Children's Crusades] which happened around the time period the story is set.
** In the Robert Browning version, the narrator refers to [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.]
** 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.]
* [[The Cake Is a Lie]]: The town never intends to pay the Piper.
* [[The Cake Is a Lie]]: The town never intends to pay the Piper.
* [[Childless Dystopia]]: [[The Punishment]] the Piper inflicts on the town.
* [[Childless Dystopia]]: [[The Punishment]] the Piper inflicts on the town.