Formulistic number: five — Mythoi

Motif

Formulistic number: five.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z71.3

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
English Gawayne and the Green Knight lines 623ff.
India Thompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian (Klikitat) Jacobs U Wash II 32ff.
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "Funf"

Within the index

Filed under Formulistic numbers.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Formulistic numbers: fivefold (e.g. 50, 500) Five sighs we should vent over our sins Five wounds of Christ. [Inadvertant duplication of V211.5.]

Filed beside it

Odd numbers – formulistic Formulistic numbers: a number plus one (101, 1001, etc.) Formulistic number: three Formulistic number: four 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.)

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