Bluebeard

In the Grimm’s, The Robber’s Groombride and Grimm’s Fitcher’s bird the female protagonist never actually marries the man. In The Robber’s Groombride, the husband-to-be kills a women completely unrelated to the bride for her to learn about he actions. While in the Grimm’s Fitcher’s bird, the wife assumes something happened to her sisters, but only finds the corpses after the wizard-husband leaves. Perrault’s Bluebeard has the wife learn about the husband’s crime in a comparable way to the Grimm’s Fitcher’s bird. However, in Perrault’s Bluebeard wife has no inkling of the husband killing people, while in Grimm’s Fitcher’s Bird the wife knew something had happened to her sisters. In the The Robber’s Groombride, unlike the other two, had no locked room to conceal the husband’s crimes. In both The Robber’s Groombride and Bluebeard the female protagonist had help to get them away from the husbands, the old lady and Sister Anne respectively. The three tale all held a similar theme to each other, a demonic/evil husband and the innocent/curious wives.