Different Bluebeard Versions

The story of Bluebeard has many different retellings. The tales are similar in the fact that they all have a man with an ugly bluebeard marrying several women and almost all end up dead. Each story has a different telling of how he killed his wives. In one story, The Robber’s Bridegroom, Bluebeard is a cannibal who invites his bride to his home, then his band of criminals eats them. In another, Grimm story Bluebeard was a wealthy story  man who is feared because of his blue colored beard and the fact that all of his previous wives died mysteriously. He takes a new woman to be his bride, soon he has to leave for a trip, he tells her not to go in a single small room in the castle. The new wife’s curiosity got the better of her once she opened it she saw the dead bodies of his previous wives. She dropped the key in the bloody room and was unable to wipe off the blood. The wife knew she would die too if she showed him the key once she got back. The wife was correct, once bluebeard saw the key he tried to kill her. She begged him to let her pray first she cried out to her brothers and they came and killed Bluebeard. I like the Robber’s Bridegroom more than the other versions of the story because it is a lot more realistic. The bride in the story doesn’t escape by calling her brothers she escapes with the help of an old woman who cooks for the band of criminals. They escape together and then the bride exposes the evil of her new husband at the wedding. This is more realistic because it doesn’t make sense for the brothers to be able to hear their sister form so far away.