The document summarizes the classic fairy tale "Bluebeard." It tells the story of a wealthy man with a blue beard who marries a beautiful woman. He forbids her from entering a locked room in his castle. Curiosity gets the best of her and she opens the forbidden room to find the dead bodies of Bluebeard's previous wives. When he returns, he discovers what she has done and threatens to kill her as well. She pleads for her life and promises to obey him from now on.