Editing Bluebeard (section)

==Aarne–Thompson classification==
According to the [[Aarne–Thompson]] system of classifying folktale plots, the tale of Bluebeard is type 312.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tales Similar to Bluebeard|url=https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/a-g/bluebeard/bluebeard-related.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812034818/https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/a-g/bluebeard/bluebeard-related.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 12, 2020|author=Heidi Anne Heiner|website=SurLaLune Fairy Tales}}</ref> Another such tale is ''[[The White Dove (French fairy tale)|The White Dove]]'', an oral French variant.<ref>Paul Delarue (1956). ''The Borzoi Book of French Folk-Tales'', New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., p. 359</ref> The type is closely related to Aarne–Thompson type 311 in which the heroine rescues herself and her sisters, in such tales as ''[[Fitcher's Bird]]'', ''[[The Old Dame and Her Hen]]'', and ''[[How the Devil Married Three Sisters]]''. The tales where the [[youngest daughter]] rescues herself and the other sisters from the villain are in fact far more common in oral traditions than this type, where the heroine's brother rescues her. Other such tales do exist, however; the brother is sometimes aided in the rescue by marvelous dogs or wild animals.<ref>{{cite book
| first = Stith
| last = Thompson
| title = The Folktale 
| publisher = Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press
| page =  36
| year = 1977
}} 
</ref>

Some European variants of the ballad ''[[Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight]]'', [[Child ballad]] 4, closely resemble this tale. This is particularly noteworthy among some German variants, where the heroine calls for help much like Sister Anne calls for help to her brothers in Perrault's ''Bluebeard''.<ref>Francis James Child (1965). ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads''; v. 1, New York: Dover Publications, p. 47</ref>