Deaths in a community come in threes. One death is shortly followed by two more

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Deaths in a community come in threes. One death is shortly followed by two more.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Miscellaneous magic objects. · view the constellation · filed as D1273.1.1.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general England, U.S.: *Baughman.

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Filed under Three as magic number.

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Three on a match (lighting cigarettes or cigars)Breakage of glass or crockery occurs in threes. One breakage is followed by two more Three meditations on death which prevent laughter

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