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260 – The Blue Beard
Welcome to my 13 Nights of Halloween, where I will share frightening folktales guaranteed to scare the bejeebers out of you. These are stories so scary that most grownups won’t share them with children any more. But I think we’ve gone soft! Bring back the screams, the peril, the ghastly, the ghoulish. Kids from the past loved feeling their hair stand on end, and so do kids today.
Tonight’s story is “The Blue Beard,” which was originally published as “Barbe Bleue” in Charles Perrault’s 1697 collection, Histoires ou contes du temps passé. Perrault…
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