The Mysterious Key

There’s something inherently mysterious about keys. They’ve played a role in many folktales. Perhaps the most famous folktale key is the one that opens the locked room in "Bluebeard". Bluebeard’s naïve new wife is given the keys to every room in the house, but there’s one room her husband forbids her to open – and the key burns a hole in her curiosity until she can no longer resist. She discovers the room’s terrible secret – the skeletons of all Bluebeard’s former wives. Then she can’t un-see what she’s seen, and the key won’t stop bleeding all over everything, giving away her transgression. Can she escape her terrible fate? Read more >