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Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff

Blue Beard | A Halloween Tale

Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff

Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff LLC

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.4788 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It's Friday the 13th and Spooky Season is here! That means it's time for some Halloween tales ... enjoy! A wealthy merchant with a blue beard marries a young lady. Soon after the wedding, the merchant must travel for business and tells his wife she has free rein of the house while he is gone. He begs her to have a good time and perhaps even invite friends to come to stay so she is not alone. But he has one rule: do not enter the room at the end of the hall. But the young lady's curiosity gets the better of her. What will she find on the other side of the door? This episode feature music from Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky.

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0:00.0

Did you know Granny McDuff now has a Patreon?

0:04.2

You can get all episodes ad-free, games, puzzles, calendars, and more.

0:09.8

You can even get discounts off Granny merch.

0:12.8

Sign up now on Patreon.

0:14.6

Go to Granny Macduff-E-N-T-com for more information.

0:27.5

Thank you. for more information. Good evening, Good evening, children. It's Granny Maduff, ready with a story.

0:30.4

So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin.

0:34.0

Thank you. I'll begin. Once upon a time, there lived a man who owned large estates both in town and in the country.

0:48.3

Gold and silver plates, tapestries and and cushions with gold trim.

0:56.1

But the man had a blue beard, and this made him so frightful that there was not one lady

1:03.5

who did not run at the sight of him.

1:06.4

One of his neighbours was a great lady who had two sons and two daughters.

1:12.4

They were wonderful girls, and Bluebeard asked for one of their hands in marriage.

1:17.9

He left it to their mother to decide which of the girls would take him for a husband.

1:23.2

Both of them, however, refused.

1:27.3

Neither of them wanted a husband with a blue beard.

1:30.9

And besides this, they did not like that the man known as blue beard

1:35.3

had already had several wives,

1:39.2

and no one knew what to become of them.

1:41.6

But he pursued them nonetheless.

1:45.1

So that the girls might become better acquainted with him, Bluebeard invited them along

1:50.0

with their mother and friends to a party at his country estate.

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