But there are significant pointers towards a more magical world, the most important being the colour of the antagonist’s beard.
Every other ‘fairy-tale’ element in the original is toned down (so that there are only three murdered wives, rather than a whole roomful of them hanging on meat hooks), or is put into a more familiar ‘realistic’ context, so that the vaguely aristocratic and faintly magical Bluebeard becomes a specific Marquis living in a specific castle in Brittany, presumably alluding to the Marquis de Sade who may or may not have been guilty of similar atrocities.Ĭompared to some fairy stories, there is not a great deal that is obviously supernatural in ‘Bluebeard’. These instances of the supernatural are the only ones included by Carter.
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