Three as magic number

Motif

Three as magic number.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Kinds of magic objects. · Miscellaneous magic objects. · view the constellation · filed as D1273.1.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 8f.
JewishNeuman.
general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "Drei"

Within the index

Filed under Magic numbers. (Cf. Z71.)

4 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Four as magic number Seven as magic number Ten as magic number Twelve as magic number Thirteen as magic number Magic numbers – miscellaneous

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