Three explanations. When explanation of phenomenon is asked, three explanations are offered of which the last is always the true one. (Cf. Z71.1.)

Motif

Three explanations. When explanation of phenomenon is asked, three explanations are offered of which the last is always the true one. (Cf. Z71.1.)

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z64

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.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Other formulistic motifs.

1 finer motif beneath it

Proverb: one man for worship, two men for cultivation of a field, three men for a journey

Filed beside it

Never. Various ways of expressing this idea. When black sheep turn white, when a dry branch sprouts, etc Proverbial simile Formulas signifying fruitlessness, e.g. like putting a withe about sand, like mocking a beggar Color formulas Formulistic numbers Formulas based on the year A day and a night Formula: as many children as holes in a sieve Formulistic exaggerations Testament willing rewards and punishments. Conventional ending of a story

Travels with

Formulistic number: three

wander