英语词汇bluebeard的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Bluebeard. Many of the most famous fairy tales, including “Sleeping Beauty,” “Red Riding Hood,” “Puss in Boots” and “Cinderella,” were collected by Charles Perrault and published in his Contes du Temps (1697). Among them was “Barbe Bleue” (“Blue Beard”), in which a sadistic indigo-bearded wife killer is foiled when his last wife, Fatima, discovers the bodies of her predecessors in a secret, locked room and is saved from death herself by her brothers’ arrival in the nick of time. According to local tradition in Brittany, the real Bluebeard upon whom the story is based was the monstrous Frenchman General Gilles de Retz, the marquis de Laval, who murdered six of his seven wives and was burned at the stake for his crimes in 1440. But similar stories are common to many languages and other can- didates have been nominated as well. A Bluebeard has come to mean a man who murders women he has married, and a num- ber of contemporary wife killers, especially the Frenchman Henri Desire Landru, have been called “The Modern Bluebeard.”

词汇	bluebeard
词源	Bluebeard. Many of the most famous fairy tales, including “Sleeping Beauty,” “Red Riding Hood,” “Puss in Boots” and “Cinderella,” were collected by Charles Perrault and published in his Contes du Temps (1697). Among them was “Barbe Bleue” (“Blue Beard”), in which a sadistic indigo-bearded wife killer is foiled when his last wife, Fatima, discovers the bodies of her predecessors in a secret, locked room and is saved from death herself by her brothers’ arrival in the nick of time. According to local tradition in Brittany, the real Bluebeard upon whom the story is based was the monstrous Frenchman General Gilles de Retz, the marquis de Laval, who murdered six of his seven wives and was burned at the stake for his crimes in 1440. But similar stories are common to many languages and other can- didates have been nominated as well. A Bluebeard has come to mean a man who murders women he has married, and a num- ber of contemporary wife killers, especially the Frenchman Henri Desire Landru, have been called “The Modern Bluebeard.”
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