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Motif

Formulistic number: three.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z71.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham
  • Africa (Bulu) Krug 120f. (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 201
  • S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano) Métraux RMLP XXXIII 166.
  • general **R. Mueller Die Zahl Drei in Sage, Dichtung u. Kunst (Teschen, 1903)
  • general Wundt Völkerpsychologie VI 341
  • general Diels Sibyllinische Blätter 40
  • general Aly Volksmärchen bei Herodot 240: Hdwb. d. Märchens I 412ff.
  • general *H. Usener "Dreiheit" Rheinisches Museum f. Philologie N. F. LVIII (1903) 1–47, 161–208
  • general *Fb "tre". – Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "trois"
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Filed under Formulistic numbers.

20 finer motifs beneath 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 weak things that are the strongest Three worst things in Ireland Three reasons why men should condemn wealth Three cries of the world Three bad stories of the saints of Ireland
Filed beside it
Odd numbers – formulistic Formulistic numbers: a number plus one (101, 1001, etc.) Formulistic number: four Formulistic number: five Formulistic number: six Formulistic number: seven Formulistic number: nine (99, 900, 999, 99,999, etc.) Formulistic number: eleven Formulistic number: twelve Formulistic number: thirteen Formulistic number: sixteen Formulistic number: thirty. (Cf. Z71.1.0.1.) Formulistic number: forty Formulistic number: sixty. (Cf. Z71.4.) Formulistic number: seventy-two. (Cf. Z71.8.) Formulistic number: seventy-seven. (Cf. Z71.5.0.1.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Three explanations. When explanation of phenomenon is asked, three explanations are offered of which the last is always the true one. (Cf. Z71.1.)

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