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The Cursed Piper of the Alps

The Cursed Piper of the Alps

Long ago, when shepherds still roamed the high passes with bells clanging on goats and snow fell in sheets thick as tapestries, there lived a piper named Lukas in the village of Andermatt. Lukas played the alpine horn by trade but the wooden pipe by love. His music could summon lambs from cliffs and make hawks stoop midflight. Folk claimed

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