μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Three weak things that are the strongest.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z71.1.14

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Formulistic number: three.

Filed beside it
Triads Formulistic numbers: threefold (e.g. three times thirty) Formula: three days and three nights Three chairs in heaven for three saints Three strains of (fairy) music Three things that lead to hell (heaven) Three innocent children: Ananias, Zacharias, Misael Three Lents Three Maries Three orders of Irish saints Three seas surrounding the earth Three sods that none may escape: "The sod of his birth, the sod of his death, the sod of his burying." Three whom Christ raised from the dead Three spiritual gifts of God Three persons who spoke immediately after birth Three worst things in Ireland

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