The following tales are similar to the Bluebeard fairy tale, ATU 312, ATU 310, and ATU 955. 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.

Barbe Rouge
The Bloody Baker
The Bloody House
Bloudie Jacke of Shrewsberrie, The Shropshire Bluebeard
Bluebeard (Estonia)
Bluebeard (France) *
Bluebeard (Germany)
Bluebeard (United States)
Bobby Rag
Bopoluchi
The Brahman Girl That Married a Tiger India *
The Bridegroom
The Brigands and the Miller's Daughter
Captain Murderer
The Castle of Murder
The Castle of Robbers and Murderers
The Chosen Suitor
The Cobbler and His Three Daughters *
Conomor and Triphine *
The Count's Daughter
The Devil and the Fisherman's Daughter
The Devil's Marriage
Dodo, the Robber, and the Magic Door
Don Firriulieddu *
The Dragon
Fitcher's Bird *
The Forbidden Chamber *
A Giant Tricked
The Girl Who Got Up the Tree
The Girl Who Married the Devil
The Girl Who Was Born with a Snake around Her Neck
Greenbeard
The Hare's Bride *
The History of Mr. Greenwood
How the Devil Married Three Sisters *
How Toodie Fixed Old Grunt
The Huntsman and the Miller's Daughters
Ímarasugssuaq, Who Ate His Wives
Irimu
Jack Otter
Jean-Parle
King Bluebeard *
Knight Goldbeard
The Lass 'At Seed Her Awn Graave Dug
Laula
The Leopard and the Girl
Leopard of the Fine Skin
The Little Boy and His Dogs *
The Lonton Lass
The Lord of Rosendal
Luxehale's Wives
Mary, the Maid of the Inn
The Miller's Daughter
Mr. Bluebeard
Mr Fox (England) *
Mr. Fox (United States)
Old Dame and Her Hen *
The Oxford Student
Peerifool
The Pig
The Poor Woman and Her Three Daughters
Pretty Polly *
A Pueblo Bluebeard
The Robber and the Judge's Daughter
The Robber and the Miller's Twelve Daughters
The Robber Bridgegroom *
The Robber's Bride
The Secret Room
The Silk Nightcap
Silver Nose
Sir John Cathcart and May Kennedy
The Spirit Who Was Cheated by the Sultan's Son
The Story About Ohmy
The Story of a Turner
The Story of the Cannibal Innkeeper
The Story of the Cannibal's Wonderful Bird
Story of the Third Calendar, Son of a King
Sulasa-Jataka
The Sweetheart in the Wood
The Tale of Knight Bluebeard
The Three Cauliflowers
The Three Chests
The Three Girls and the Three Cavaliers
The Thrice Accursed
The Tiger's Bride
The Trimmatos; or, The Ogre with Three Eyes
A Tuscan Bluebeard
The White Dove
The Widow and Her Daughters *
The Wimali Story
Wine-Crust, the Blue-Beard of Flanders
Zerendac and Abu Freywar

* Full text of tale is available online.

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

This tale is ATU 312. It is from France.

An English language version is available in:

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This tale is ATU 955. It is from England.

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Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things Selected from Notes and Queries. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857.

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This tale is ATU 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 taleis not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from England.

An English language version is available in:

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Ingoldsby, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends; or Mirth and Marvels. London: Richard Bentley, 1866.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Estonia.

An English language version is available in:

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Kirby, W. F. The Hero of Esthonia: And Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country, Volume 2. London: John C. Nimmo, 1895.

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

This tale is ATU 312.

An English language version is available in:

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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 ATU 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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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from the United States.

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Parsons, Elsie Clews. “Tales from Guilford County, North Carolina.” Journal of American Folklore. vol. 30, no. 116 (April-June, 1917). p. 183.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from England.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Groome, Francis Hindes. Gypsy Folk-Tales. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1899.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955.

An English language version is available in:

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Steel, F[lora] A[nnie], and Sir R[ichard] C[arnac] Temple. Wide-Awake Stories: A Collection of Tales Told by Little Children, Between Sunset and Sunrise in the Panjab and Kashmir. London: Trubner & Co., 1884.

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Text available at The Brahman Girl That Married a Tiger.

This tale is ATU 312A. The Brahman Girl That Married a Tiger comes from India.

An English language version is available in:

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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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This tale is ATU 955. It comes from Russia and is by Alexander Pushkin.

An English language version is available in:

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It comes from Poland.

An English language version is available in:

Groome, Francis Hindes. Gypsy Folk-Tales. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1899.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It comes from England.

An English language version is available in:

Dickens, Charles. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal. no. 72. September 8, 1860. pp. 518-19.

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

This tale is ATU 311. It is 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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Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from Germany.

An English language version is available in:

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312A. It is from British West Indies.

An English language version is available in:

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Johnson, John H. “Folk-Lore from Antigua, British West Indies.” Journal of American Folklore. vol. 34, no. 131 (January-March, 1921). pp. 62-63.

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Text available at The Cobbler and His Three Daughters.

This tale is ATU 311. It is a Basque tale.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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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 is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It comes from Hungary.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Jones, W. Henry and Lewis L. Kropf. The Folk-Tales of the Magyars: Collected by Kriza, Erdélyi, Pap, and Others. London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by Elliot Stock, 1889.

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

This tale is ATU 311. It comes from Greece.

An English language version is available in:

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Louisiana, United States.

An English language version is available in:

Fortier, Alcée, editor. Louisiana Folk-Tales: In French Dialect and English Translation. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from Nigeria.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Tremearne, Major A[rthur] J[ohn] N[ewman]. Hausa Superstitions and Customs: An Introduction to the Folk-Lore and the Folk. West African Nights’ Entertainment Series, Vol. 1. 2nd edition. London: J. Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1913.

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

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Italy.

An English language version is available in:

Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885.
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Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Greece.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Text available at Fitcher's Bird.

This tale is ATU 311. It is 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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Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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A web version of this tale is available at The Forbidden Chamber.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from the United States and Mexico.

An English language version is available in:

Cordova, Gabriel. “La Camara Prohibida / The Forbidden Chamber.” Part of an unpublished manuscript “A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Department of English Texas Western College of the University of Texas.” May 1951. © The Estate of Gabriel Cordova, Jr. Reprinted by permission of The Family of Gabriel Cordova, Jr.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from Iceland.

An English language version is available in:

Arnason, Jon. Icelandic Legends, Second Series. Geo. E. J. Powell and Eirikr Magnusson, translators. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1866.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from England.

An English language version is available in:

Addy, Sidney Oldall. Household Tales with other Traditional Remains: Collected in the Counties of York, Lincoln, Derby, and Nottingham. London: David Nutt, 1895.

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

This tale is ATU 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 does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from France.

An English language version is available in:

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

This tale is ATU 955. It is from Lithuania.

An English language version is available in:

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Text available at The Hare's Bride.

This tale is ATU 311. It is 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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Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from Scotland.

An English language version is available in:

Buchan, Peter. Ancient Scottish Tales: An Unpublished Collection Made by Peter Buchan. John A. Fairley, introduction. Peterhead: Reprinted from the Transactions of the Buchan Field Club, 1908.

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

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Italy.

An English language version is available in:

Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885.
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Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is ATU 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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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from Germany.

An English language version is available in:

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Greenland.

An English language version is available in:

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Rasmussen, Knud. Eskimo Folk-Tales. W. Worster, editor and translator. London: Gyldendal, 1921.

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

This tale is ATU 955. It is from Tanzania and Kenya.

An English language version is available in:

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from England.

An English language version is available in:

Addy, Sidney Oldall. Household Tales with other Traditional Remains: Collected in the Counties of York, Lincoln, Derby, and Nottingham. London: David Nutt, 1895.

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from Canada.

An English language version is available in:

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Text available at King Bluebeard. (D. L. Ashliman's translation.)

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Germany.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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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 ATU 312. It is from Switzerland.

An English language version is available in:

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from England.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Peacock, Mabel. North Lincolnshire Dialect: Tales and Rhymes in the Lindsey Folk-Speech. London: George Jackson & Son, 1886.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from Wales.

An English language version is available in:

Groome, Francis Hindes. Gypsy Folk-Tales. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1899.

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

This tale is ATU 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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This tale is ATU 955. It is from Gabon.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Nassau, Robert Hamill. Where Animals Talk: West African Folklore Tales. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1912.

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

This tale is ATU 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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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from England.

An English language version is available in:

Gutch, Mrs. [Eliza], editor. Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning the North Riding of Yorkshire, York and the Ainsty. County Folk-Lore Vol. II. London: David Nutt, 1901.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from Italy.

An English language version is available in:

Busk, Rachel Harriette. Household Stories from the Land of Hofer: or Popular Myths of Tirol. London: Griffith and Farran, 1871.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from England.

An English language version is available in:

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Southey, Robert. The Poetical Works of Robert Southey. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1839.

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This tale is ATU 955. It is from France.

An English language version is available in:

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Jamaica.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Jekyll, Walter, editor. Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes. London: David Nutt, 1907.

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

This tale is ATU 955. It is from England. 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:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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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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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from the United States.

An English language version is available 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.

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 is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from England.

An English language version is available in:

Addy, Sidney Oldall. Household Tales with other Traditional Remains: Collected in the Counties of York, Lincoln, Derby, and Nottingham. London: David Nutt, 1895.

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from Scotland.

An English language version is available in:

Black, G. F. County Folk-Lore, Vol. 3: Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning the Orkney and Shetland Islands. Northcote W. Thomas, editor. London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1903.

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Lang, Andrew. “At the Sign of the Ship.” Longman’s Magazine. Vol. XIV, No. LXXXI (July 1889). pp. 331-34.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from Denmark.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Stroebe, Clara. The Danish Fairy Book. Frederick H. Martens, translator. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1922.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from Scotland.

An English language version is available in:

Campbell, J. F. Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected. Vol. 2. London: Alexander Gardner, 1890-1893.

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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A web version of this tale can be found at Pretty Polly.

This tale is ATU 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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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from United States.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Lummis, Charles F. Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories. New York: Century Co., 1910.

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This tale is not ATU 312 but it bears similarities to Bluebeard tales. It is from Egypt.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Sayce, A. H. “Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folk-Lore.” Folklore. Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep. 30, 1920). pp. 173-203, 182-183.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from Germany.

An English language version is available in:

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Text available at The Robber Bridgegroom.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from the 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.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from the Germany.

An English language version is available in:

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from the United States.

An English language version is available in:

Gardner, Emelyn E. “Folk-Lore from Schoharie County, New York.” Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 27, No. 105 (July-September, 1914). pp. 310-11.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from England.

An English language version is available in:

Dickens, Charles. “The Holly-Tree Inn.” Household Words: Christmas Stories 1851-1858. London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, n.d.

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

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Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Scotland.

An English language version is available in:

“Ballantrae—Without the Master.” All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal. Charles Dickens, conductor. Vol. 70, No. 162 (February 6, 1892). pp. 135-136.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is not ATU 312 but it bears similarities to Bluebeard tales. It is from Tanzania.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Steere, Edward. Swahili Tales: As Told By Natives of Zanzibar. London: Bell & Daldy, 1870.

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

This tale is ATU 311.

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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This tale is ATU 311. It is from Portugal.

An English language version is available in:

Cuelho, J. Adolpho, and Henriqueta Montiero. “Portuguese Stories.” The Folk-Lore Record. Vol. 4 (1881). pp. 152-155.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Romania.

An English language version is available in:

Gaster, M. “Why Does the Duck Feed on Refuse? The Story of the Cannibal Innkeeper.” Rumanian Bird and Beast Stories. London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1915.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from South Africa.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Theal, Georg McCall. Kaffir Folk-Lore. London: S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, 1886.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is not ATU 312 but it bears resemblances to Bluebeard and is often referenced in Bluebeard scholarship. This tale is part of The Arabian Nights.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Lang, Andrew, editor. The Arabian Nights Entertainments. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from India.

An English language version is available in:

Cowell, E. B., editor. The Jataka; or, Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births. vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1897.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from Norway.

An English language version is available in:

Asbjörnsen, Peter Christen. Tales from the Fjeld. G. W. Dasent, translator. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874.

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

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Germany.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from Italy.

An English language version is available in:

Apperson, Geo. L. “Tabulation of Folk-Tales: The Three Cauliflowers.” The Folk-Lore Journal. Vol. 2, No. 6 (Jun., 1884). pp. 183-186.

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Paget, Violet. “The Three Cauliflowers.” Tuscan Fairy Tales: Taken Down from the Mouths of the People. London: W. Satchell & Co., 1880. No. 7. pp. 63-74.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from Finland.

An English language version is available in:

Fillmore, Parker. Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1922.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 955. It is from France.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Greece.

An English language version is available in:

Coote, H. C. “Folk-Lore in Modern Greece.” The Folk-Lore Journal. Vol. 2, No. 8 (Aug. 1884). pp. 235-243.

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from India.

An English language version is available in:

Bompas, Cecil Henry. Folklore of the Santal Parganas. London: David Nutt, 1909.

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

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Greece.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Italy.

An English language version is available in:

Anderton, Isabella Mary. Tuscan Folk-lore and Sketches: Together with Some Other Papers. London: Arnold Fairbairns, 1905.

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

This tale is ATU 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.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from Scotland.

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.)
Amazon.com: Buy the book inpaperback (Volume 1) or
paperback (Volume 2).

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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This tale is simiar to Bluebeard although it isn't ATU 312. It is from Sri Lanka.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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Parker, H. Village Folktales of Ceylon, Part 1. London: Luzac & Company, 1910.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 312. It is from Belgium.

An English language version is available in:

Griffis, William Elliot. Belgian Fairy Tales. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1919.

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A web version of this tale is not available at this time.

This tale is ATU 311. It is from Palestine.

An English language version is available in:

Hanauer, J. E. Folk-Lore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian, and Jewish. London: Duckworth and Company, 1907.

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Bluebeard Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2011.
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