Editing Bluebeard (section)

{{short description|French folktale}}
{{other uses}}
{{Infobox folk tale
|Folk_Tale_Name = Bluebeard
|Image_Name     = Blue Beard in Tales of Mother Goose (Welsh).png
|Image_Caption  = Bluebeard gives his wife the keys to his castle, art by Gustave Doré (1862).
|Aarne-Thompson Grouping = ATU 312 (The Bluebeard, The Maiden-Killer)
|AKA            = Barbebleue
|Mythology      =
|Region         = [[France]]
|Published_In   = {{lang|fr|[[Histoires ou contes du temps passé]]}}, by [[Charles Perrault]]
|Related        = [[The Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale)|The Robber Bridegroom]]; [[How the Devil Married Three Sisters]]; [[Fitcher's Bird]]
}}

"'''Bluebeard'''" ({{langx|fr|Barbe bleue}} {{IPA|fr|baʁb(ə) blø|}}) is a French [[Folklore|folktale]], the most famous surviving version of which was written by [[Charles Perrault]] and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in {{lang|fr|[[Histoires ou contes du temps passé]]}}.<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Bluebeard}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://clpav.fr/perrault.htm |title=Charles Perrault (1628–1703)|publisher=CLPAV}}</ref> The tale is about 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 (French fairy tale)|The White Dove]]", "[[The Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale)|The Robber Bridegroom]]", and "[[Fitcher's Bird]]" (also called "Fowler's Fowl") are tales similar to "Bluebeard".<ref>{{cite web |title=Bluebeard, The Robber Bridegroom, and Ditcher's Bird|url=https://jml023grimmtodisney.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/bluebeard-the-robber-bridegroom-and-fitchers-bird/ |website=JML: Grimm to Disney|date=8 November 2015 }}</ref><ref name=wdove>{{cite web |title=The White Dove: A French Bluebeard |url=http://talesoffaerie.blogspot.com/2012/01/white-dove-french-bluebeard.html |website=Tales of Faerie|date=15 January 2012 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Words We're Watching: 'Bluebeard,' the Verb |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-were-watching-bluebeard-the-verb |website=Merriam-Webster}}</ref>