Answer | Crossword Clue |
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ROMAN | Caesar's wife, for one |
STOLA | Garb for Caesar's wife |
OGRESS | Shrek's wife, for one |
FREA | One name for Odin's wife. |
OCEANID | Poseidon's wife Amphitrite, for one |
RANI | Shah Jahan's wife, for one |
CANTERBURYTALE | Wife of Bath's story for one |
bluebeard | A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400รป40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him) |