What you've read is a brief synopsis not of Beauty and the Beast, but of the older legend of Bluebeard.

Which begs the question, why would such a plot be put into a Beauty & The Beast story, and then intentionally inverted?

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Dark Books (TLH):
His beard was blue, a color that made him look so ugly that there was no woman or young who would not flee at his sight.

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The that disturbed me the most was Bluebeard. Leaving his new wife alone, he tells her not to open a specific door. When she does, she finds bodies of old wives hanging on the walls! Not able to clean the blood from the key, she reveals her demise!

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Bluebeard. A fairy tales that puts the grim in Grimm (cw for DV). One of those fairy tales with a warning that's as timely today as ever. I wanted to put Bluebeard in a modern setting in this illustration - but is Bluebeard even the best version of this tale? Story below! /1

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If I had to pick one fairy tale I loved as a child, it was Bluebeard. Brought to life by Charles Perrault in 1697, & illustrated below by Doré & Dalziel in the 19thc, the tale’s themes of forbidden secrets & the perils of curiosity were as old as Pandora 😱🗝#FairyTaleTuesday

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The gruesome French tale of Bluebeard. Leaving his new wife alone, Bluebeard tells her not to open a specific door. She does,falling into a bloodbath! With bodies of old wives hanging from the walls! Not able to clean the blood from the key; revealing her demise!#FolkloreThursday

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The Important Cinema Club Bargain-Bin Classics - the Criterion of public domain - returns with Edgar G. Ulmer's BLUEBEARD.

✓ Commentary by me and
✓ Featurettes on Ulmer, John Carradine, Eugen Shuftan
✓ Glorious standard-def!
✓ Bonus films!

https://t.co/PFhb0lPFwm

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So last december my friend and i was commissioned to make a pop up artbook. Of Bluebeard... A brutal folk's tale... For their college project. Wtf

Either way we loved the idea, so this time i drew it in my style huehuehue

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Early sketches for Bluebeard. Which do you prefer?

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