Krampus: A Children's Story

In 1284, the German village of Hamlin was struggling with an infestation of rats. According to the story that has been passed down through the century since then, a stranger entered Hamlin in the spring of 1284 and claimed to be a rat catcher. As a profession, rat-catching dates back centuries, but it's rarely seen as a safe and sanitary job. In medieval Europe, from what I can gather, rats were as abundant as squirrels, only bigger than more disease ridden.