Seven as a number in religious and social records

Motif

Seven as a number in religious and social records.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z71.5.6

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 Formulistic number: seven.

13 finer motifs beneath it

Seven causes of poverty Seven Deadly Sins Seven ecclesiastical orders Seven grades of wisdom Seven joys of the Virgin Mary Seven masses necessary to free soul from hell Seven orders of poets Seven gifts of God (Holy Spirit)Seven penitential psalms Seven prayers of saint Seven to whom alms should be given Seven fair rivers in Inis Eidheand (Eden) in the East of Africa Seven daughters of Humility

Filed beside it

Formulistic numbers: sevenfold (e.g. 49, 70, 70,000, 7,777). (Cf. Z71.15.)Seven brothers and one sister Journey beyond seven seas Seven year's peace with no killing of men King for seven years Exile for seven years King with seven wives and seven mares. The seven wives pregnant for seven years, the seven mares seven years in foal Seven brothers marry seven sisters

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