BLUEBEARD
- A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400รป40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him)
- A man who murders his wives
- a man who has murdered several wives and concealed their bodies, or has other mysterious or horrible things to conceal [n -S]