“Bluebeard” and “Fitcher's Bird” are pretty similar. Bluebeard and the sorcerer both have a room in their houses where they keep the dead bodies of women. They both use their victim's curiosity against them. They give the girls the keys to the rooms but tell them they are not allowed to enter the rooms knowing that the girls will disobey them. They both had bewitched objects that could not be cleaned so that they knew when the girls entered the rooms. In "Bluebeard", his wife drops the key to the room in the blood on the floor and then she is unable to clean the key off. In "Fitcher's Bird", the girl drops the egg that the sorcerer gave her and is unable to clean the blood off it. “The Robber Bridegroom” is not very similar to the other two tales. The only thing that they all have in common is that the men in the stories murder women. “The Robber Bridegroom” is unique because the main character uses the finger of the girl she saw being killed as evidence and the story of what she saw against the murderers. “Fitcher's Bird” is unique because the youngest daughter saves herself and her sisters. Usually, a man would do the saving, but in this case, it was a girl. “Bluebeard” is unique because the wife is saved by her brothers. Usually, the damsel in distress is saved by her love interest but in this story, she is saved by her brothers. I liked “Fitcher's Bird” the most because the youngest sister outsmarts the sorcerer and saves herself and her older sisters.
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