The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Conspiracy Theories

May 18, 2020

The story is set in medieval Germany, where a man kidnaps a group of children in revenge for being cheated out of his money for exterminating rats .

The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has an original story.

The mysterious disappearance of 130 young people was recorded in the city history of Hamelin in 1284.

At the time, Germany was experiencing a food shortage due to a population explosion, and the now widely accepted theory is that children headed to the new frontier of Eastern Europe to reduce the number of mouths to feed .

Eastern colonization was common at the time, but the scale of the colonization, involving 130 people at a time, was extremely large for the time , so it was combined with other facts and exaggerated by delusion, turning the facts into ``legends. ''

After that, the plague struck Europe. It is said that the population was reduced by half or even a third, but after that devastation, Europe achieved a rebirth known as the Renaissance.

Well.

The current COVID-19 pandemic is apparently a conspiracy by Bill Gates. It will reduce the world's population by half, bringing about a renaissance for humanity. Then, Gates will become a god and become a legend... that's the plot.

Wait.

Isn't this the same as Dan Brown's "Inferno"? It's a completely short-sighted delusion.

A legend is a small fact to which other facts or delusions are added. The tendency of modern people to create legends seems to be no different from that of people in the Middle Ages.

*Set in northern Italy, this is the story of a scholar and a female doctor who unravel the mysteries scattered throughout Dante's "Divine Comedy" while confronting the threat of a virus engineered by a mad geneticist . It was made into a film in 2016.