Bluebeard

“The Robber Bridegroom,” “Fitcher’s Bird,” both by the Brothers Grimm, and “Bluebeard,” by Charles Perrault,
is about a man who wants to marry a woman and she finds out that he is a murderer. The woman comes up
with a plan and catches the murderer. 
In both the “Fitcher’s Bird,” and “Bluebeard,” there is a task the women must perform to gain the trust of the man.
When the man finds out that she failed the test, he kills the woman and moves onto the next. In “The Robber Bridegroom”
the woman is betrothed to the murderer and at their wedding, she tells the story she witnessed at the man's house.
The murderer is then arrested and killed.
My favorite of the three would be “The Robber Bridegroom,” because it reminds me of the show, Criminal Minds because the woman is forced to visit her fiance. When she gets to his house, she realizes that he's not there so she starts to explore. In the cellar, she finds an old woman who tells her that her fiance is a murderer. The only way for the two women to leave alive is too hide and wait for the men to fall asleep. The group of men came back with another woman and started to cut up her body. The old woman was able to drug them and when they were sleeping, women left for safety. The parts with the woman hiding and the men murdering the other woman is a pretty basic Criminal Minds plot.

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