4. Bluebeard
A story of marriage, a story of love of sorts, Bluebeard starts with a betrothal. A lovely young maiden is pursued by a man who is ugly, and deplorable, and has a blue beard. Gross, right? But the maiden is able to look past the physical defects her betrothed has, and instead focus on just how loaded her husband-to-be is. Think Donald Trump with even more exotic hair styling. Bluebeard is kind, and considerate, and even leaves his wife with the run of the house while he is away on business. Theres only one thing the wife is forbidden to do: open the closet at the end of the hall. When she gives into the inevitable curiosity, the maiden learns just what her husband is like. A man of monogamy, the man with a Blue Beard was resolved never to have more than one wife. He got around this problem by murdering each wife in turn, and stacking them in his closet, because its much cheaper to do this than arrange a funeral or dig a hole. The moral of the story? When your rich and mysterious husband says you can do anything except for one thing, the best course of action is take what you can and get out of town.