The following tales are similar to the Bluebeard fairy tale, AT-312. I have included the English language tales of this type which have been gathered by title by D. L. Ashliman in his A Guide to Folktales in the English Language. Sometimes I include tales of other classifications when I deem them relevant to the theme. The tales come from many cultures and are similar to the Bluebeard story in various ways. I have placed the tales in alphabetical order with bibliographic information and links to texts of the stories if a text is available on the internet.

The Bloody House
Bluebeard (France) *
Bluebeard (Germany)
The Brahman Girl That Married a Tiger India *
The Cobbler and His Three Daughters *
Conomor and Triphine *
Don Firriulieddu *
Fitcher's Bird *
The Girl Who Married the Devil
How the Devil Married Three Sisters *
How Toodie Fixed Old Grunt
King Bluebeard *
The Leopard and the Girl
The Little Boy and His Dogs *
Mr Fox *
Old Dame and Her Hen *
Pretty Polly *
The Robber Bridgegroom *
Silver Nose
The Story About Oh My
The White Dove
The Widow and Her Daughters *

* Full text of tale is available online.

A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-312.

An English language version is available in:

Roberts, Leonard W. South From Hell-fer-Sartin: Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955.

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A web version of this story is the one I have annotated at The Annotated Bluebeard.

This tale is AT-312.

An English language version is available in:

Lang, Andrew, ed. "Bluebeard." The Blue Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1889.) Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-312.

Note: The Grimms included the story in their first collection of tales, but later removed it in 1819 due to its obviously close relationship to Perrault's tale.

An English language version is available in:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Grimm's Other Tales. William Hansen, selector. Ruth Michael-Jenas and Arthur Ratcliff, translators. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1956.

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Text available at The Brahman Girl That Married a Tiger.

This tale is AT-312. The Brahman Girl That Married a Tiger comes from India.

An English language version is available in:

Kingscote, Mrs. Howard and Pandit Natêsá Sástrî. Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India. London: W. H. Allen and Company, 1890.

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Text available at The Cobbler and His Three Daughters.

The Cobbler and His Three Daughters is a Basque tale.

An English language version is available in:

Webster, Wentworth. Basque Legends. London: Griffith and Farran, 1877.
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Text available at Conomor and Triphine.

This is a Breton legend.

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A web version of this tale can be found at Don Firriulieddu.

This tale is AT-312.

An English language version is available in:

Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885.
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Text available at Fitcher's Bird.

This tale is AT-311 and AT-312.

An English language version is available in:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-312.

An English language version is available in:

Ranke, Kurt, ed. Folktales of Germany. Lotte Baumann, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

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A web version of this tale can be found at How the Devil Married Three Sisters.

This tale is AT-312.

An English language version is available in:

Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-312.

An English language version is available in:

Randolph, Vance. The Devil's Pretty Daughter and Other Ozark Folk Tales. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955.

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Text available at King Bluebeard.

King Bluebeard comes from Germany.

An English language version is available in:

Meier, Ernst. Deutsche Volksmärchen aus Schwaben. Stuttgart: C. P. Scheitlin's Verlagshandlung, 1852.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-312.

An English language version is available in:

Arewa, Erastus Ojo. A Classification of the Folktales of Northern East Africa Cattle Area By Types. Folklore of the World. New York: Arno Press, 1980.

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A web version of this tale can be found at The Little Boy and His Dogs.

This tale is AT-312. The tale is African American.

An English language version is available in:

Harris, Joel Chandler. Daddy Jake, the Runaway: and, Short Stories Told After Dark. New York: The Century Company, 1889.

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Text available at Mr. Fox from Joseph Jacobs's English Fairy Tales.

The story of Mr Fox is very old and is even referred to by Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing.

An English language version is available in:

Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1890.
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An Appalachian American variant is recorded in:

Chase, Richard. American Folk Tales and Songs. New York: Dover, 1971. (Reprint of 1956 edition.)

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Text available at Old Dame and Her Hen.

Old Dame and Her Hen is a Norwegian tale.

An English language version is available in:

Asbjornsen, Peter Christen and Moe, Jorgen. East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon. George Webbe Dasent, translator. Popular Tales from the Norse. Edinburgh: David Douglass, 1888.

Also available in reprint under:
Dasent, George Webbe. East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon. New York: Dover, 1970.
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A web version of this tale can be found at Pretty Polly.

This tale is AT-312. The tale is Appalachian American.

*See also Tina Hanlon's annotated bibliography of Pretty Polly stories part of AppLit at http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/PrettyPolly.htm.

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Text available at The Robber Bridgegroom.

The story of The Robber Bridgegroom comes from Germany.

An English language version is available in:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Household Tales. Margaret Hunt, translator. London: George Bell, 1884.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-311: Rescue By the Sister which has many elements in common with AT-312.

An English language version is available in:

Gonzenbach, Laura. Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach. Jack Zipes, translator and editor. New York: Routledge, 2004.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-312.

An English language version is available in:

Delarue, Paul, ed. The Borzoi Book of French Folk Tales. Austin E. Fife, translator. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1956.
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Text available at The Widow and Her Daughters.

The Widow and Her Daughters is a Scottish tale.

An English language version is available in:

Campbell, J. F. Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected. London: Alexander Gardner, 1890-1893. (Reprint available from Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1969.)
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paperback (Volume 2).

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