bluebeard

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A man who married and then murdered one wife after another
The nobleman who is title character of the story
A famous fairytale written by Charles Perrault in 1697 about a violent nobleman who has the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of his current wife to avoid the same fate
an evil character in old European stories who got married many times, and each time killed his wife. or Gilles de Rais or Gilles de Retz born Sept./Oct. 1404, Champtocé, Fr. died Oct. 26, 1440, Nantes Baron and marshal of France renowned for his cruelty. His name was later connected with the story "Bluebeard" by Charles Perrault. He fought several battles at the side of St. Joan of Arc and was made marshal of France (1429). Back in Brittany he led a dissipated life and eventually turned to alchemy and satanism. Accused of abducting and murdering more than 140 children, he was tried by ecclesiastical and civil courts. Condemned for heresy, he confessed, repented, and died bravely at the gallows; his body was burned. Skeptics have noted irregularities in the trials and the interest of others in his ruin. The fairy-tale Bluebeard takes a wife, who, curious about the one room of the castle to which he denies her the key, discovers there the skeletons of her predecessors
Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate
The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle
{i} fairy-tale character who married and then murdered many wives
She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives
(fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience
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