Bluebeard gives his wife the keys to his castle, art by Gustave Doré (1862)
Folk tale
Name
Bluebeard
Also known as
Barbebleue
Aarne–Thompson grouping
ATU 312 (The Bluebeard, The Maiden-Killer)
Region
France
Published in
Histoires ou contes du temps passé, by Charles Perrault
Related
The Robber Bridegroom; How the Devil Married Three Sisters; Fitcher's Bird
"Bluebeard" (French: Barbe bleue, [baʁb(ə)blø]) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in Histoires ou contes du temps passé.[1][2] The tale tells the story of a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of the present one to avoid the fate of her predecessors. "The White Dove", "The Robber Bridegroom", and "Fitcher's Bird" (also called "Fowler's Fowl") are tales similar to "Bluebeard".[3][4] The notoriety of the tale is such that Merriam-Webster gives the word Bluebeard the definition of "a man who marries and kills one wife after another". The verb bluebearding has even appeared as a way to describe the crime of either killing a series of women, or seducing and abandoning a series of women.[5]
^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bluebeard" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^"Charles Perrault (1628–1703)". CLPAV.
^"Bluebeard, The Robber Bridegroom, and Ditcher's Bird". JML: Grimm to Disney. 8 November 2015.
^"The White Dove: A French Bluebeard". Tales of Faerie. 15 January 2012.
^"Words We're Watching: 'Bluebeard,' the Verb". Merriam-Webster.
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