In a distant town lived a very rich man with a sinister reputation. It was widely known that he had already been married six times and, on account of his beard, which was a fearful blue shade, it was whispered that he was really an ogre. He became known as ‘Bluebeard’.
One day another maiden accepted his proposal of marriage, and at first everything seemed to go well. The husband gave every key he had to his new wife. What is more, he told her she could do anything she wished, forbidding her only to open one small room in the house.
This one strange order made the new wife very curious, and one day, as soon as Bluebeard had gone out, she ran to open the door to the little room….She almost died of fright; in the room she found the bodies of the other six wives of Bluebeard. The seventh wife, still shaking with fear, had scarcely close the door when Bluebeard stomped in.
‘Now,’ shrieked the ogre, ‘you’ll go back into that little room, and this time you’ll stay there with the other six that you should never have seen.’
But, by good fortune, the seventh wife did not suffer the same fate as the others. At that very moment, her two brothers, who were valiant soldiers, arrived and slew her evil husband, to save her from a horrible end.
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