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Motif

Formulistic number: seven.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z71.5

Filed across the traditions
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "sept"
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Spanish Espinosa Jr. Nos. 157, 178
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 457
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 49, 162, Graham
  • N. Am. Indian (Seneca) Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 93 No. 6, 149 No. 24, 154 No. 26
  • Africa (Cameroon) Mansfield 224, 236, (Togo): Einstein 7, (Congo): Weeks Cannibals 217.
  • general *Nyrop Dania II 126
  • general Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer I 292
  • general Wundt Völkerpsychologie VI 349
  • general *Roscher Die Sieben- und Neunzahl im Kultus und Mythus der Griechen (Leipzig, 1904)
  • general Aly Volksmärchen bei Herodot 241
  • general *Fb "syv". Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 45, 100, Beal XXI 316, 332
Within the index

Filed under Formulistic numbers.

9 finer motifs beneath 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 Seven as a number in religious and social records 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
Filed beside it
Odd numbers – formulistic Formulistic numbers: a number plus one (101, 1001, etc.) Formulistic number: three Formulistic number: four Formulistic number: five Formulistic number: six 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.)
Seventh daughter predestined to be magician. (Cf. Z71.5.) Heptads. Laws made in groups of seven. (Cf. Z71.5.)

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