 Also noteworthy is the similarity between lord Halewijn and the legendary "Bluebeard".The Halewijn legend shares with all those tales the main theme of a woman lured by a powerful, handsome and implicitly sexual stranger who is in some way "otherworldly" or magical and hence has a bad fate in store for her.In contrast to most of the stories, the heroine rescues herself instead of being saved by her brothers or other kin.