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BLUE BEARD;
OR, THE
EFFECTS OF FEMALE CURIOSITY.
T0 WHICH IS ADDED
THE MURDER
HOLE
AN ANCIENT LEGEND.
GLASGOW.
P I T DFORT E BOOKSELLERS.
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��THE STORY OF
BLUE
BEARD.
THERE was, some time ago, a gentleman
who was extremely rich: he had elegant
town and country-houses; his dishes and
plates were of gold or silver; his rooms
were hung with damask; his chairs and
sofas were covered with the richest silks :
and his carriages were all magnificently
gilt with gold.
But, unfortunately, this gentleman had
a blue beard, which made him so very
frightful and ugly, that none of the ladies
in the neighbourhood would venture to go
into his company.
It happened that a lady of quality, who
lived very near him, had two daughters,
who were both extremely beautiful. Blue
Beard asked her to bestow one of them
upon him in marriage, leaving to herself the
choice which of the two it should be.
They both, however, again and again
refused to marry Blue Beard; but to be as
civil as possible, they each pretended that
they refused because she would not deprive
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her sister of the opportunity of marrying
so much to her advantage.
But the truth
was, they could
not bear the thoughts
of having a husband with a blue beard:
and, besides, they had heard of his having
already been married to several wives, and
nobody could tell what had afterwards become of them.
A s Blue Beard wished very much to gain
their favour, he invited the lady and her
daughters, and some ladies who were on a
visit at their house, to accompany him to
one of his country seats, where they spent
a whole week; during which nothing was
thought of but parties for hunting and
fishing, music, dancing, collations, and the
most delightful entertainments. No one
thought of going to bed, and the nights
were passed in merriment of every kind.
In short, the time had passed so
agreeably,
began to think that the beard which had so
much terrified her was not so very blue; and
that the gentleman to whom it belonged
was vastly civil and pleasing.
Soon after they returned home, she told
her mother that she had no longer any
were married.
About a month after the marriage had
objection
that th
to
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taken place. Blue Beard told his wife that
he should be obliged to leave her for a few
weeks, as he had some business to do in the
country. He desired her to be sure to procure
herself every kind of amusement; to invite
as many of her friends as she liked, and to
treat them with all sorts o f delicacies, that
the time might pass agreeably during his
absence, " H e r e , " said he, " a r e the keys
of the two large wardrobes. This is the
key of the great box that contains the best
plate, which we use for company: this
belongs to my strong box, where I keep my
money; and this to the casket in which
are all my jewels. Here also is a master
key to all the apartments in my house: but
this small key belongs to the closet at the
end of the long gallery on the ground floor.
I give you leave," continued he, " to open
or do what you like with all the rest
excepting
enter, nor even put the key into the lock,
for all the world. Should you disobey me,
expect the most dreadful of punishments."
She promised to obey his orders in the
most faithful manner; and Blue Beard,
after tenderly embracing her, stepped into
his carriage and drove away.
The friends of the bridle did not, on
this occasion, wait to be invited, so impatient
were they to see all the riches and magni
this closet: this,
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-icence
had been prevented from paying their
of the bridegroom.
she had gained by m
wedding
visit by t
No sooner were they arrived than they
impatiently ran from room to room, from
cabinet to cabinet, and then from wardrobe
to wardrobe, examining each with the utmost
curiosity,
and declaring that the last was
still richer and more beautiful than what, they
had seen the moment before.
A t length
they
came to the drawing rooms,
admiration
and astonishment were still
increased
by the c
g i r a n d o l e s , a n d l o o k i n g - g l a s s e s , the frames
o f w h i c h were s i l v e r g i l t , mostr i c h l yornamented,a n d in w h
from head to foot.
In
short, nothing could exceed the
magnificence
o f wha
did not cease to extol and envy the g o o d
fortune o f their friend, who all this time was
far from being amused b y thefinecomplimentsthey paid
desire to see what was in the closet her
husband had forbidden her to open. So great
indeed was her curiosity, that, withoutrecollectin
her guests, she descended a private staircase
that led to it, and in such a hurry, that she
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as two or three times in danger of breaking
her neck.
When she reached the door of the closet
she stopped for a few moments to think of
the charge her husband had given her, and
that
he would not fail to keep his
punishing her very severely, should she
disobey
know what was in the inside, that she determined to venture in spite of every thing.
She accordingly, with a trembling hand,
put the key into the lock, and the door
immediately opened. The window-shutters
being closed, she at first saw nothing; but
in a short time she perceived that the floor
was covered with clotted blood, on which the
bodies of several dead women were lying,
These were all the wives whom Blue Beard
had married and murdered, one after another.
She was ready to sink with fear, and the
key of the closet door, which she held in her
hand, fell on the floor. When she had
somewhat recovered from her fright, she took
it up, locked the door, and hastened to her
own room, that she might have a little time
to get into humour for amusing her visitors;
but this she found impossible, so greatly was
she terrified by what she had seen.
As she observed that the key of the closet
had got stained with blood in falling on the
floor, she wiped it two or three times over to
him.
But she w
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clean it; still, however, the blood remained
the same as before, she next washed it,but
the blood did not stir at all; she then scoured
it with brickdust, and afterwards with sand,
but notwithstanding all she could do, the,
blood was still there; for the key was a fairy,
who was Blue Beard's friend, so that as
fast as she got it off on one side, it appeared
again on the other.
Early in the evening Blue Beard returned
home, saying, he had not proceeded far
his journey before he was met by a
messenger
w
business was happily concluded without him
being present: upon which his wife
said
every thing she could think of, to make him
believe she was transported with joy at his
unexpected return.
The next morning he asked her for the
keys: she gave them to him; but as she
could not help showing her fright, Blue
Beard easily guessed what had happened,
"'How is it," said he, "that the key of the
closet upon the ground-floor is not here?
" I s it not? then I must have left it on.
my dressing-table," said she, and left the
room in tears. " B e sure you give it me
by and by," cried Blue Beard.
After going several times backwards and ]
forwards, pretending to look for the key,she
was at last obliged to give it to Blue Beard.
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He looked at it attentively , and then said .
" How came the blood upon the k e y ? " " I
am sure I do not know," replied the lady
turning at the same time as pale as death,
" You do not know," said Blue Beard sternly:
" but I know well enough. You have been
in the closet on the ground-floor : Vastly
well, madam; since you are so mightily
fond of this closet, you shall certainly take
your place among the ladies you saw there."
His wife, almost dead with fear, fell upon
her knees; asked his pardon a thousand times
for her disobedience, and entreated him to
any heart that was not harder than a rock.
forgive
her; lookin
But Blue Beard answered;
" No, no,
madam; you shall die this very minute !"
" A l a s !" said the poor trembling creature,
" i f I must die, allow me, at least, a little
time to say my prayers."
"
I give you," replied
" h a l f a quarter of an hour; not one moment longer."
When Blue Beard had left her to herself,
she called her sister; and after telling her,
as well as she could for sobbing, that she
had but half a quarter of an hour to live;
" Pr'ythee," said she, "sister A n n , " (this
was her sister's name,) " r u n up to the top
of the tower, and see if my brothers
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in sight; for they promised to come and
visit me to-day; and if you see them make
a sign for them to gallop as fast as possible."
Her sister instantly did as she was desired,
and the terrified lady every minute called
out to her, " Ann ! sister Ann ! do you see
any one coming ? " and her sister answered,
" 1 see nothing but the sun, which makes a
dust, and the grass which looks green.
In the meanwhile, Blue Beard, with a
great scimetar in his hand, bawled as loud
as he could to his wife " Come down
instantly;
" One moment longer, I beseech you,"
replied she; and again called softly to her
sister: " Sister Ann, do you see any one
coining?" To which she answered, " I see
nothing but the sun, which makes a dust,
and the grass which looks green,"
Blue Beard now again bawled out,
" C o m e down, I say, this very moment, or
I shall come and fetch you."
" I am coming: indeed I will come in one
minute;" sobbed his unhappy wife. Then
she once more cried out, " A n n ! sister
Ann ! do you see any one coming?" " I
see," said her sister, " a cloud of dust a little
to the left." " Do you think it is my
brothers?" continued the wife. " A l a s ! no,
dear sister," replied she; " i t is only a flock
of sheep,"
or I w
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Will you come down or not, madam ? "
said Blue Beard, in the greatest rage imaginable,
"Only one single moment more," answered
she. And then she called out for the last time,
" Sister Ann ! do you see any one coming ?"
"
1 see," repli
horseback coming to the house ; but they
are still at a great distance."
"Godbepraised!" cried she ; it is my
brothers : give them a sign to make what
haste they can.
At the same moment Blue Beard cried
out so loud for her to come down, that his
voice shook the whole house.
The poor lady with her hair loose, and her
eyes swimming in tears, instantly came
down, and fell on her knees to Blue Beard,
and was going to beg him to spare her life ;
but he interrupted her saying, " All this is
of no use at all, for you shall die
then
seizing
her with one
raising the scimetar beheld in the other,
was going with one blow to strike off her
head.
The unfortunate creature turning towards
him, desired to have a single moment alllowed
her to recollect herself.
4 No, no," said Blue Beard, "1 will give
you no more time, 1 am determined you
have had too much already
and again
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raising his arm Just at this Instant a
loud knocking was heard at the gates, which
made Blue Beard wait for a moment to see
who it was. The gates were opened, and two
officers, dressed in their regimentals,entere
instantly to Blue Beard; who seeing they
were his wife's brothers, endeavoured to
escape from their presence; but they pursued
and seized him before he had gone twenty
steps; and, plunging their swords into his
body, he immediately fell down dead at their
feet.
The poor wife who was almost as dead as
her husband, was unable at first to rise and
embrace her brothers. She soon, however,
recovered; and as Blue Beard had no heirs,
she found herself the lawful possessor of his
great riches.
She employed a portion of her vast fortune
in giving a marriage dowry to her sister
Ann, who soon after became the wife of a
young gentleman by whom she had long
been beloved. Another part she employed
in buying captains' commissions for her two
brothers; and the rest she presented to a most
worthy gentleman, whom she married soon
after, and whose kind treatment soon made
her forget Blue Beard's cruelty.
THE END,
�THE MURDER
HOLE.
AN ANCIENT LEGEND.
In a remote district of country belonging
to Lord Cassillis, between Ayrshire and
Galloway, about three hundred years ago,
a moor of apparently boundless extentstretchedsev
the eye of the traveller by the sameness and
desolation of its appearance; not a tree varied
the prospect not a shrub enlivened the eye
. by its freshness nor a native flower bloomed
to adorn this ungenial soil. One 'lonesome
desert' reached the horizon on every side,
with nothing to mark that any mortal had
ever visited the scene before, except a few
rude huts that were scattered near its centre;
and a road, or rather pathway, for those
whom business or necessity obliged to pass
in that direction. A t length, deserted as
this wild region had always been, it became
still more gloomy. Strange rumours arose,
that the path of unwary travellers had
been beset on this ' blasted heath,' and that
treachery and murder had intercepted the
solitary stranger as be traversed its dreary
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extent. When several persons, who were
known to have passed that way, mysteriously
disappeared, the enquiries of their relatives
led to a strict and anxious investigation •
but though the officers of justice were sent
to scour the country, and examine the inhabitants, not a t
persons in question, nor of any place of concealment which cou
lawless or desperate to horde in. Yet, as
inquiry became stricter, and the disappearance of individuals
inhabitants of the neighbouring hamlet
were agitated by the most fearful apprehensions. Some declared that the death-like
stillness of the night was often interrupted
by the sudden and preternatural cries of
more than mortal anguish, which seemed to
arise in the distance; and a shepherd, one
evening, who had lost his way on the moor,
declared he had approached three mysterious
figures, who seemed struggling against each
other with supernatural energy, till at length
one of them, with a frightful scream, suddenly
sunk into the earth.
Gradually the inhabitants deserted their
dwellings on the heath, and settled in distant
quarters, till at length but one of thecottag
woman and her two sons, who loudly lamented that poverty
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solitary spot. Travellers who frequented
this' road now generally did so in groups, to
protect each other: and if night overtook
them, they usually stopped at the humble
cottage of the old woman and her sons,
where cleanliness compensated for the want
of luxury, and where, over a blazing fire
of peat, the bolder spirits smiled at the
imaginary terrors of the road, and the more
timid trembled as they listened to the tales
of terror and affright with which their hosts
entertained them.
One gloomy and tempestuous night in
November, a pedlar boy hastily traversed
the moor. Terrified to find himself involved in darkness amidst its boundless wastes,
a thousand frightful traditions connected
with this dreary scene, darted across his
mind every blast, as it swept in hollow
gusts over the heath, seemed to teem with
the sighs of departed spirits and the birds,
as they winged their way above his head,
appeared, with loud and shrill cries, to warn
him of approaching danger. The whistle
with which he usually beguiled his weary
pilgrimage,
died away in silence, and he
groped with trembling and uncertain steps,
which sounded too loudly in his ears. The
promise of Scripture occurred to his memory,
and he revived his courage.
I will be
unto thee as a rock in the desert, and as a
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place of safety.'
This heart-consoling
promise inspired him with confidence, and
he continued for a time to make, with renewed vigour his way a
A t length, however, wearied and faint
through fatigue, he was compelled to cast
his pack on the ground, and in the midst of
the pitiless storm rested himself thereon.
Thus situated, he frequently, and with
much anxiety looked, to see, that if perchance, some place of shelter might be
near, but nothing met his eye but
darkness,
and that occas
ever anon struck through the gloom.
Resigning himself to his unhappy fate,
the poor benighted pedlar boy, anticipated nothing but perishing ere the cheering
light of day should again lighten the earth.
Despair had a second time nearly taken
possession of his soul, when he suddenly
started to his feet, and turning round,
to his great astonishment and joy, the
light of a taper appeared to come from a
pot not far distant; a few minutes' walk
brought him to he window whence the
light issued, he looked in and sawseveral
round a cheerful fire. He now made for
the door, which when he came at was firm
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ly locked. The boy in a frolicsome mood,
thoughtlessly tapped at the window, when
they all instantly started up withconsternationst
with an undefined feeling of apprehension ;
but before he had time to reflect a moment
longer, one of the men suddenly darted out
of the door, and seizing the boy roughly by
the shoulder, dragged him violently into
the cottage. "1 am not what you take me
for,' said the boy, attempting to laugh, 'but
only the poor pedlar who visited you last
year.' c Are you alone ?' enquired the old
woman in a harsh deep tone, which made
his heart thrill with apprehension. ' Yes,
said the boy, 6 I am alone here; and alas !'
he added with a burst of uncontrollable
feeling, ' I am alone in the wide world
also ! Not a person exists who would assist
me in distress, or shed a single tear if I died
this very night.' ' Then you are welcome!'
said one of the men with a sneer, while he
cast a glance of peculiar expression at the
other inhabitants of the cottage.
It was with a shiver of apprehension,
rather than of cold, that the boy drew
towards the fire, and the looks which the old
woman and her sons exchanged, made him
wish that he had preferred the shelter of any
one of the roofless cottages which were scat-
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tered
persons of such dubious aspect. Dreadful
surmises flitted across his brain ; and terrors
which he could neither combat nor examine
imperceptibly stole into his mind; but alone,
and beyond the reach of assistance, he
not increase the danger by revealing them.
The room to which he retired for the night
had a confused and desolate aspect; the
curtains seemed to have been violently torn
down from the bed, and still hung in tatters
around it the table seemed to have been
broken by some violent concussion, and the
fragments of various pieces of furniture lay
scattered upon the floor. The boy begged
that a light might burn in his apartment
till he was asleep, and anxiously examined
the fastenings of the door; but they seemed to
have been wrenched asunder on some former
occasion, and were still left rusty and broken.
near, rathe
resolved
It was long ere the pedlar attempted to
compose his agitated nerves to rest; but at
length his senses began to/steep themselves
in forget fulness,' though his imagination
remained painfully active, and presented new
scenes of terror to his mind, with all the
vividness of reality. He fancied himself
again wandering on the heath, which
appeared
beckoned to him not to enter the cottage,
to
to be people
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and as he approached it, they vanished with
a hollow and despairing cry. The scene
then changed, and he found himself again
seated by the fire, where the countenances
of the men scowled upon him with the most
terrifying malignity, and he thought the
old woman suddenly seized him by the arms,
and pinioned them to his side. Suddenly
the boy was startled from these agitated
slumbers, by what sounded to him like a
cry of distress; he was broad awake in a
moment, and sat up in bed, but the noise
was not repeated, and he endeavoured to
persuade himself it had only been a
continuation
door, he observed underneath it, a broad red
stream of blood silently stealing its course
along the floor. Frantic with alarm, it
was but the work of a moment to spring
from his bed, and rush to the door, through a
chink of which, his eye nearly dimmed with
affright, he could watch unsuspected, whatever might be done in the adjoining room.
of the fearful
His fear vanished instantly when he perceived that it was only a goat that they had
been slaughtering; and he was about to steal
into his bed again, ashamed of hisgroundlessapprehe
by a conversation which transfixed him
hast with terror to the spot
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This is an easier job than youhadyesterdays
' I wish all the throats "we've cut were as
easily and quietly done. Did you ever hear
such a noise as the old gentleman made last
night! It was well we had no neighbour
within a dozen of miles, or they must have
heard his cries for help and mercy.'
' Don't speak of it,' replied the other; 6 1
was never fond of bloodshed.'
' H a ! h a ! ' said the other with a sneer,
' you say so, do you ?'
' I do,' answered the first gloomily; ' the
Murder Hole is the thing for me that tells
no tales a single scuffle a single plunge
and the fellow is dead and buried to your
hand in a moment. I would defy all the
officers in Christendom to discover any
mischief
' A y , Nature did us a good turn when she
contrived such a place as that. W h o that
saw a hole in the heath, filled with clear
water, and so small that the long grass meets
over the top o f it, would suppose that the
depth is unfathomable, and that it conceals
more than forty people who have met their
deaths there ? it sucks them in like a
leech! '
How do you mean to dispatch the lad in
the next room ?' asked the old woman in an
nuder tone. The elder son made her a sign
there.'
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to be silent, and pointed 'towards the door
where their trembling auditor was concealed,
while the other, with an expression of brutal
ferocity, passed the blood knife across his
throat.
The pedlar boy possessed a bold and
daring
spirit, which was
were so completely against him, that flight
seemed his best resource. He gently stole
to the window, and haying by one desperate
effort broke the rusty bolt by which the
casement
had been fast
without noise or difficulty. This betokens
good, thought he, pausing an instant in
dreadful hesitation what direction to take.
This momentary deliberation was fearfully
interrupted by the hoarse voice of the men
calling aloud, 'The boy has fled let loose
the blood-hound! These words sunk like
a death-knell on his heart, for escape appeared
now impossible, and his nerves seemed to
melt away like wax in a furnace. Shall I
perish without a struggle! thought he,
rousing himself to exertion, and, helpless
and
terrified as a hare pu
hunters, he fled across the heath. Soon the
baying of the blood-hound broke the stillness
of the night, and the voice of its masters
sounded through the moor, as they endeavoured to accelerate its spe
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breathlesstheboy pursued his hopeless career,
but every moment his pursuers seemed to
gain upon his failing steps. The hound was
unimpeded by the darkness, which was to
him so impenetrable, and its noise rung
louder and deeper on his ear while the
lanterns which were carried by the men
gleamed near and distinct upon his vision.
A t his fullest speed, the terrified boy
fell with violence over a heap of stones, and
having nothing on but his shirt, he was
severely cut in every limb. With one wild
cry to heaven for assistance, he continued
prostrate on the earth, bleeding, and nearly
insensible. The hoarse voices of the men,
and the still louder baying of the dog, were
now so near, that instant destruction seemed
inevitable, already he felt himself in their
fangs, and the bloody knife of the assassin
appeared to gleam before his eyes, despair
renewed his energy, and once more, in an
agony of affright that seemed verging
towards madness, he rushed forward so
rapidly that terror seemed to have given
wings to his feet. A loud cry near the spot
he had left arose on his ears withoutsuspending
at the place where the Pedlar's wounds bled
so profusely, and deeming the chase now
over, it lay down there, and could not be
induced to proceed ; in vain the men beat it
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with frantic violence, and tried again to put
the hound on the scent, the sight of blood
had satisfied the animal that its work was
done, and with dogged resolution it resisted
every inducement to pursue the same scent
a second time. The pedlar boy in the meantime paused not in hi
dawned and still as he fled, the noise of
steps seemed to pursue him, and the cry of
his assassins still sounded in the distance.
Ten miles off he reached a village, and
spread instant alarm throughout theneighbourhoodthe inh
one accord into a tumult of indignation
several of them had
friends on the heath, and all united inproceeding
her sons, who were nearly torn to pieces by
their violence. Three gibbets wereimmediatelyrais
culprits confessed before their execution to
the destruction of nearly fifty victims in the
Murder Hole which they pointed out, and
near which they suffered the penalty of their
crimes. The bones of several murderedperson
the abyss into which they had been thrust;
but so narrow is the aperture, and so extraordinary the depth,
are inclined to coincide in the tradition of
the country people that it is unfathomable.
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The scene of these events still continues
nearly
as it was 300
of the old cottage, with its blackened walls,
(haunted of course by a thousand evil spirits,)
and the extensive moor, on which a more
modern inn (if it can be dignified with an
epithet) resembles its predecessor in every
thing but the character of its inhabitants;
the landlord is deformed, but possessesextraordinar
untaught skill, and if any discord be heard
in the house, or any murder committed in it,
this is his only instrument. His daughter
has inherited her father's talent, and learnt
all his tales of terror and superstition, which
she relates with infinite spirit; when she
describes, with all the animation of an
eyewitness,
the str
and trying to drag in their assassin as an
expiring effort of vengeance, when you
are told that for three hundred years the
clear waters in this diamond of the desert
have remained untasted by mortal lips,
and that the solitary traveller is still pursued
at night by the howling of the blood hound,
it is then only that it is possible fully to
appreciate the terrors of THE MURDER HOLE,
FINIS.
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Title
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Woodcut 104: Title-page illustration in single-ruled circular border of a portrait of a king in full regalia with a long pike.
Document
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Title
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The Story of Blue Beard; or, The Effects of Female Curiosity. To which is added The Murder Hole An Ancient Legend.
Identifier
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<a href="https://ocul-gue.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_GUE/mrqn4e/alma9935682543505154">s0587b40</a>
Alternative Title
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The Effects of Female Curiosity.
The Murder Hole
An Ancient Legend.
Date
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[1850?] per National Library of Scotland
Extent
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24 pages
16 cm
Description
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20 printed at the bottom of the title-page.
Contributor
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Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Is Referenced By
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<a title="National Library of Scotland" href="http://www.nls.uk/">National Library of Scotland</a>
<a title="University of Glasgow Union Catalogue of Scottish Chapbooks" href="http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/chapbooks/search/">University of Glasgow Union Catalogue of Scottish Chapbooks </a>
Rights
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In the public domain; For high quality reproductions, contact Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph. libaspc@uoguelph.ca, 519-824-4120, Ext. 53413
Format
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JPEGs and PDF derived from master file, which was scanned from the original book in 24-bit color at 600 dpi in TIFF format using an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner.
Publisher
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Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers
Type
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fairytale/folk lore
Subject
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Chapbooks - Scotland - Glasgow
Courtship and Marriage
Crime
Source
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Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario
# of Woodcuts: 1
Bib Context: title-page
Chapbook Date: 1851-1860
Chapbook Genre: fairytale/folk tale
Chapbook Publisher - Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers
Fashion (Clothing): regalia
Monarch: king
Portrait: Blue Beard
Portrait: king
weapons: long pike