Show Notes
In this week’s episode, Lindsay opens the storybook and tells an often forgotten unsettling fairytale: Bluebeard. As the Quail Oak is poured, the ladies open doors they shouldn’t, gush over colorful beards, and recount their favorite Taylor Swift music videos. So grab a yearless sauvignon blanc and try to find the moral of this twisted tale. Ladies Who Dye Their Beards will ensure you never ignore the ick again.
TW: Death, gore, murder
Sources:
Estés, C. P. (1992). Women Who Run With The Wolves. Ballantine Books. Perrault, C. (1886). The Story of Blue Beard. Project Gutenberg. Bone and Sickle. Conomor the Accursed. Bone and Sickle. Worderist. The Mixed Up Morality of Bluebeard. Worderist. Tales of Faerie. The Issue of the "Moral" in Bluebeard. Tales of Faerie. Crawford, L. Bluebeard: Why the Grimmest of Fairytales is Still All-Too-Relevant. BBC. Sur La Lune. Bluebeard Related Tales. Sur La Lune. Fairy Tales with Jen. The History of Bluebeard. YouTube.
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