16 Facts About Bluebeard

In one version of the story, Bluebeard is a wealthy and powerful nobleman who has been married six times to beautiful women who have all mysteriously vanished.

Bluebeard's is able to open any room with them, each of which contain some of his riches, except for an underground chamber that he strictly forbids her to enter lest she suffer his wrath.

Bluebeard then goes away, leaves the palace, and the keys in her hands.

Bluebeard's invites her sister, Anne, and her friends and cousins over for a party.

Bluebeard's immediately discovers that the room is flooded with blood and the murdered corpses of Bluebeard's previous six wives hanging on hooks from the walls.

Bluebeard's tries to wipe the blood stain off the key, but the key is magic and the stain can't be removed from it.

Bluebeard's uses the fortune to have her siblings married then remarries herself, finally moving on from her horrible experience with Bluebeard.

In giving his wife the keys to his castle, Bluebeard is acting the part of the serpent, and therefore of the devil, and his wife the part of the victim held by the serpent's gaze.

Bluebeard's can choose to not open the door and live as a naive young woman.

Scholar Philip Lewis, the key offered to the wife by Bluebeard represents his superiority, since he knows something she does not.

Bluebeard's has erased the difference between them, and in order to return her to her previous state, he must kill her.

In Edward Dmytryk's film Bluebeard, Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat known as Bluebeard for his blue-toned beard and his appetite for beautiful wives, and his wife is an American named Anne.

Bluebeard is a generous, kind-hearted, wealthy nobleman called Bertrand de Montragoux who marries a succession of grotesque, adulterous, difficult, or simple-minded wives.

In Joyce Carol Oates' short story, "Blue-Bearded Lover", the most recent wife is well aware of Bluebeard's murdered wives: she does not unlock the door to the forbidden room, and therefore avoids death herself.

Bluebeard's loses the key and her lover hides the three duplicates.

One afternoon Bluebeard insists that she open the door, so she borrows his key.