Very shortly after, Bluebeard announces that he must leave the country for a while ; he gives all the keys of the château to his new wife, telling her they open the doors to rooms which contain his treasures.

But Bluebeard returns home unexpectedly the next morning, and, noticing the blood on the key, immediately knows his wife has broken her vow.

The opera lasts only a little over an hour and there are only two singing characters onstage: Bluebeard (), and his new wife Judith (); the two have just eloped and Judith is coming home to Bluebeard's castle for the first time.

This a reference to the fairy tale of Bluebeard where Bluebeard's wife asks the same thing of her sister, while waiting for her brothers to rescue her.

Sister Anne, Potter ’ s version of the story of Bluebeard was written especially for her American readers but illustrated by Katharine Sturges.

The Brothers Grimm rejected several tales for their collection, though told orally to them by Germans, because the tales derived from Perrault, and they concluded they were thereby French and not German tales ; an oral version of Bluebeard was thus rejected, and the tale of Briar Rose, clearly related to Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, was included only because Jacob Grimm convinced his brother that the figure of Brynhildr, from much earlier Norse mythology, proved that the sleeping princess was authentically Germanic folklore.

Introduced by Irene Bordoni in the play Little Miss Bluebeard

The song was sung by Lydia Thompson, in the burlesque adaptation of Offenbach's operetta Bluebeard, with which she was touring the United States.

When he visited New Orleans in 1872, Russian Grand Duke Alexei Romanov saw Bluebeard and was fascinated by both the singer and the song.

" Bluebeard " ( French: La Barbe bleue ) is a French literary folktale written by Charles Perrault and published in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697.

Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian ( 1916 – 1988 ) is a 1987 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut.

Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale of Bluebeard popularized by Charles Perrault.

Bluebeard, a ballet based on her play, was choreographed by Ninette de Valois as one of the final productions of the Abbey school of ballet.

In the novel Bluebeard, by Kurt Vonnegut, the character Dan Gregory states that his yacht, the Ararat, was dry-docked on City Island.

Leno considered the dame roles in two of his last pantomimes, Bluebeard ( 1901 ) and Mother Goose ( 1902 ), written by J. Hickory Wood, to be his favourites.

Leno appeared at Drury Lane as Sister Anne in Bluebeard, a character described by Wood as " a sprightly, somewhat below middle aged person who was of a coming on disposition and who had not yet abandoned hope " The Times drama critic noted: " It is a quite peculiar and original Sister Anne, who dances breakdowns and sings strange ballads to a still stranger harp and plays ping-pong with a frying-pan and potatoes and burlesques Sherlock Holmes and wears the oddest of garments and dresses her hair like Miss Morleena Kenwigs, and speaks in a piping voice – in short it is none other than Dan Leno whom we all know ".

It is in Hungarian, based on the French fairy tale " Bluebeard " by Charles Perrault.

Landru ( US title: Bluebeard ) is a 1963 French motion picture drama directed by Claude Chabrol.

Storybook Love ( issues 14 to 17 ): Bluebeard hatches a plot to rid himself of Bigby and Snow by enchanting them, and the homicidal Goldilocks attempts to kill the pair.

* In the famous fairy tale " Bluebeard ", written by Charles Perrault, the title character kills two of his wives.

Grimaldi returned to Drury Lane late in 1802 and starred in a production of Bluebeard, followed by the Christmas pantomime Love and Magic.

In the same year, Nielsen was also commissioned by The Illustrated London News to produce a set of four illustrations to accompany the tales of Charles Perrault ; Nielsen's illustrations for ' Sleeping Beauty ', ' Puss in Boots ', ' Cinderella ' and ' Bluebeard ' were published in the 1913 Christmas Edition.

Rabo Karabekian is a fictional character and the narrator and protagonist of the 1987 novel Bluebeard by American author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Another is a parodic rewriting of the fairy-tale Bluebeard, perhaps inspired by Angela Carter's story " The Bloody Chamber.

Charming wanted the job of Mayor because of Bluebeard's treasure which, with Bluebeard dead, went into the town coffers to be spent by the mayor.

Secret Beyond the Door ... ( 1948 ) is a psychological thriller and modern updating of the Bluebeard fairytale, directed by Fritz Lang, produced by Lang's Diana Productions, and released by Universal Pictures.

When Fand sees that Cúchulainn's jealous wife, Emer is worthy of him ( and accompanied by a troop of armed women ), she decides to return to Manannán, who then shakes his magical cloak of mists between Fand and Cúchulainn so that they may never meet again.

The essence of his reputation are claims that he succeeded at the two magical goals of alchemy: that he made the Philosopher's Stone, which turns dung into gold and ordinary stones into precious gems, and that he and his wife Perenelle achieved immortality through the " Elixir of Life ".

While this is not the classical myth of Orpheus, the poet shows substantial ingenuity in merging the Orpheus of mythology, who tries and fails to obtain the return of his wife Eurydice from the underworld, with the traditional fairy motifs of the fairy raid or hunt, the fairies ' otherworldly kingdom, their attempts to abduct mortals, and the magical transformations endured by those who are captured by them.

* Trollkjerringer, or trollkonor, is a troll ’ s wife who possesses magical powers.

Orendel goes on to take the fisherman's magical coat, and his wife Breide.

At the end of Week 52 it is revealed that Dibny's magical, wish-granting gun ( a souvenir from " The Anselmo Case ", a reference to The Life Story of the Flash and homage to the long-running, unsolved case on the TV series Moonlighting ), worked — Ralph's last wish was to be reunited with his wife, even in death — and that Ralph and Sue are now reunited as ghost detectives investigating a school where a paranormal phenomenon has just occurred.

Another popular practice of the cunning folk was the casting of spells or charms to ensure a spouse's fidelity, preventing them from committing adultery, for instance, a cunning man from Newcastle, Peter Banks, was charged in 1673 – 74 for offering to draw up a magical contract which would bind a husband to staying loyal to his wife for a year.

As described in the fantasy novel The Soulforge, Raistlin Majere and his twin brother Caramon were born in the town of Solace, Abanasinia, to a woodcutter named Gilon Majere and his wife, Rosamun ( who, because she possessed magical abilities but was forced to suppress it by her upbringing, had a habit of slipping into uncontrollable trances ).

The advent of Simon Tregarth, a man who turns out to possess some magical power and who forms a magical link with the witch Jaelithe after she becomes his wife, poses an uncomfortable challenge to the conservative witch hierarchy, which is by slow degrees forced to accept that males-and females who have relationships with them-can and do possess magic power.

In the fantasy kingdom of Kyrandia, King William and his wife, Queen Katherine, have been murdered by the evil court jester Malcolm, a madman who possesses vast magical powers.

If a man has an intelligent and loving wife, with whom he is in complete accord, he can work out the problems how to achieve magical results by her aid.

In the Serpent War Pug appears to learn how to teleport without using a magical orb from his wife Miranda.

* Manitou Raven and his wife Dawn ( who later becomes Manitou Dawn after her husband's death ), serving as the team's magical expert.

His loveless marriage took 18 years to produce a son, with some saying his wife even sought magical wards against bearing his child.

Seth fears magical intervention by Isis, Horus ' wife ( in early Egyptian mythology ), and so holds the gathering on an island, instructing Anti not to allow anyone resembling Isis to be ferried there.

His wife was killed when one of his magical experiments gone awry and, ashamed of telling his daughter, he gave up magic and told Kaelyn her mother had drowned.