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Blue Beard | The Lang Fairy Tales: The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
Today's Lang Fairy Tale is the classic cautionary tale about too much curiosity - Blue Beard!
Of course, it's unfortunate our heroine married a murderer with a suspicious blue beard, but she certainly couldn't say that he didn't warn her not to go into the locked room...
If you are unfamiliar with the Lang Fairy Tales, these seminal collections were assembled between 1889 and 1913 by a married couple, folklorists and translators Nora and Andrew Lang, with most of the work done to compile them completed by Nora, also known as Leonora Blanche Alleyne.
Assembled and published in 12 colour-coded…
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