‘Robber Bridegroom, The’
‘Robber Bridegroom, The’.Told to the Brothers Grimm by Marie Hassenpflug, ‘Der Räuberbräutigam’ is closely related to another tale from Kinder‐ und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales), ‘Fitchers Vogel’ (‘Fitcher's Bird’), as well as to Perrault's ‘Barbe bleue’ (‘Bluebeard’). In addition, the 1812 volume of the first edition of the Grimms' tales included ‘Das Mordschloss’ (‘The Castle of Murder’, omitted in subsequent editions), which reads as an amalgam of ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ and ‘Fitcher's Bird’.
In the version of ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ which appears in Children's and Household Tales, a rich but slightly unnerving suitor becomes engaged to a miller's daughter at her father's behest. Invited to the forest home of her husband‐to‐be, the girl...
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