okay yeah re: the wataru pied piper thing i was just wondering about the specifics since the robert browning version is from what i could tell the primary english adaptation but the goethe poem and a grimm fairy tale version both also exist and cover the same events ive seen outlined? sorry i dont mean to fact-check im genuinely curious since i dont speak japanese
ohh i see what you mean now!! it seems that my research was flawed since the pieces i read seemed to concern browning's version as the original version he read, but it appears to be a long-dated legend huh...
in my thread, i tried intentionally focus on the original stories and general concept around each fairy tale, since they were handling general picture books during the scene, and because there were no specific versions named; i hoped to cover the general (and original if possible) fairy tale and the message it sent, in hopes that correlations to other interpretations and adaptations could be drawn.
if it helps, the specific tale wataru named is "ハーメルンの笛吹き男" which refers to the general tale!