I nominated La Barbe bleue and that particular character, I was thinking of a wife prior to the current wife but not the immediate wife before her (if that makes sense). Like, of 12 wives, Wife #12 is the MC and Wife #5 (not Wife #11) is in the story.

Re. The Fairy and the Woodcutter, I was using this as a source: https://www.korea.net/NewsFocus/Culture/view?articleId=120797