Bluebeard's Wife is a variegated colourway with a grey base, blue and brown streaks, blue, purple and brown speckles. 

I named this colourway after Bluebeard (Barbe bleue), a French folk story. 

In the story, Bluebeard is a wealthy and powerful nobleman who has been married six times to beautiful women who have all mysteriously vanished. When he visits his neighbor and asks to marry one of his daughters, they are terrified. After hosting a wonderful banquet, the youngest decides to be his wife and goes to live with him in his rich and luxurious palace in the countryside.

Bluebeard announces that he must leave for a time, and he gives the palace keys to his wife. She may open any room with them, each of which contain some of his riches, except for an underground chamber that he strictly forbids her to enter lest she suffer his wrath. After instructing this, he leaves the wife alone in the palace. She is eventually overcome with curiosity and the desire to see what the secret room holds.

She discovers that the room is flooded with blood and the murdered corpses of Bluebeard's previous six wives hanging on hooks from the walls. Horrified, she drops the key in the blood and flees the room. Afterwards, she tries to wipe the blood stain off the key, but the key is magic and the stain cannot be removed from it.

When Bluebeard unexpectedly returns and finds the bloody key, in a blind rage, he threatens to kill his wife on the spot, but she asks for one last prayer. Then, as Bluebeard is about to deliver the fatal blow, her friend and her brothers arrive and kill him. The wife inherits his fortune and castle, and has his six dead wives laid to rest. 

As grim as this folktale may be, the motif is so notorious that Merriam-Webster gives the word Bluebeard the definition of "a man who marries and kills one wife after another". The verb bluebearding has even appeared as a way to describe the crime of either killing a series of women, or seducing and abandoning a series of women.