Comments by "jorge luis barrios mur" (@jorgebarriosmur) on "The Horrifying True Story of the Pied Piper" video.

  1. Around 1700, Hamelin is suposed to have some 2.500 inhabitants. In medieval times, Hamelin would have even less (much less, probably even less than a thousend perhaps), and, from a modern point of wiev we would have called it probaly a village, instead of a town. I can fanthom how the "loss" of 130 healthy and young workers, women and men, (lets not forget the economy then was based on "human" energy) through emigration could have been seen as a huge blow for the "city", and more, if they left all at the same time, tempted by some foreign noble who promised them better conditions than that they had in their hometown....... For the remaining people this must have been a very bad day, and more, if we take in consideration that, given the times they lived, if they emigrated far away enough, any form of comunication would be almost impossible, so their final fate would be unknown, and for the people in town, they had effectively "vanished"
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