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• Three creators. A2.1
• Angels created from three elements. A52.0.5
• Three-bodied goddess. Hekate has three bodies standing back to back and looking in three directions. A123.1.1
• Goddess with three supernatural bodies: fire, cliff, sea. A123.1.7
• God with three faces. A123.2.1.2
• Three-eyed god. A123.3.1.1
• God with three heads. A123.4.1.1
• God with three legs. A123.6.1
• God in three forms: gecho, shark, or priest. A132.0.1.2
• Giant god goes with three steps through the world. A133.2.1
• The bull with three cranes. (Cf. A132.6.) A137.7
• Krishna plays cards with his three wives. (Cf. A163.1.) A164.3.1
• Three fates in house in woods allot destiny to people. A463.1.2
• The three Graces. A468
• Culture hero born three times. A511.1.7
• Culture hero has three heads of hair of different colors. A526.4
• Three heavens. A651.1.1
• Region above the three worlds. A651.1.1.2
• Three lower worlds. A651.2.2
• Saint sees vision of three cities in heaven: a city of gold, a city of silver, a city of glass. A661.1.2
• Four (three) rivers in hell. A671.2.2.5
• Sun, moon, and darkness as god's three children. A700.8
• Four suns at first: culture hero shoots three down. A716.1
• Rainbow has three colors. A791.4
• Earth brought up by three gods. A811.2
• Three wells under the three roots of earth-tree. A878.1.2
• Forging of chain for fettered monster. Smiths hit once in three or four times on the bare anvil. All of these blows go to forging chains for the monster (devil). A1071.2
• Three horses from dove's egg on last day. A1091.1
• Mother of the world gives birth to three sons. A1282.1
• The "three first cries that made their way to God": the cry of the blood of Abel, etc. A1344.1
• Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics. A1371.3
• Why grizzly bears have three stripes on inside of stomach. A2367.2.1
• Three-headed dragon. B11.2.3.2
• Three-headed animal. B15.1.2.2
• Three-headed bird. B15.1.2.2.1
• Three-headed serpent. B15.1.2.2.2
• [First Edition: B15.1.2.5. Other three-headed animals.] B15.1.2.5[1st ed.]
• Three-horned deer. B15.3.1.1
• Ox with three horns. B15.3.1.3
• Three-legged quadrupeds. B15.6.1
• Cerberus. The hell hound with three heads, a serpent's tail, and a writhing tangle of snakes from his body. B15.7.1
• Monster three-legged ass. Stands in the ocean. Has three feet, six eyes, nine mouths, two ears, one horn, a white body. Two eyes are in eye position, two on top of his head, two on his hump. He renders powerless by the sharpness of his eyes. He has three mouths in his head, three in his hump, and three in the inner parts of his flanks. Each mouth is the size of a cottage. (Cf. B13, B15.1, B15.2, B15.4.) B15.7.2
• Three-tailed turtle. B15.7.6
• Eagle with twelve wings and three heads. B15.7.16
• Bird of dawn. Golden plumage; three feet. B34
• Three sea-cows: one red, one white, one black. B72.1
• Mermaid lives for three hundred years under lake. B81.13.12
• Ass insists upon payment of tithes. When stolen by thieves, the ass refuses to eat for three days because the thieves' provender has not been tithed. B259.1
• Son of three dogs ("con," persons). B635.4.1
• Hyena with three hundred sixty-five different colors. B731.14
• The lion blows first life into its cubs three days after their birth. B751.4
• Whale cast ashore – three golden teeth and five ounces in each of these teeth. B874.3.1
• Tabu: eating before three years have passed. C231.6
• "We three" – "For gold" – "That is right". These expressions are the sole conversation of three men. C495.2
• "We three" – "For gold" – "That is right" devil's bargain. Three brothers have agreed to say only these things. They incriminate themselves. C495.2.1
• "We three" – "For gold" – "That is right": phrases of foreign language. Three travelers know each one phrase of a foreign language. They incriminate themselves. C495.2.2
• Forbidden stables. Person allowed to enter everywhere but into three stables. C611.2
• Tabu: entering chariot less than three weeks after having eaten horseflesh. C756.4
• Tabu: following three red men to certain place. C863
• Transformation to likeness of ruler. Man so uses the last of three wishes granted to him. D41.1
• God transformed to giant with three heads and six arms. D42.1
• Transformation: handkerchief with three knots to clod, potsherd, and charcoal. D454.3.2.1
• Transformation: handkerchief with three knots to golden leopard, golden snake, and golden monkey. D454.3.2.2
• Transformation by jumping three times. D561.3
• Three redeeming kisses. (Die weisse Frau.) A woman can be disenchanted from animal form if man will kiss her three times, each time when she is in the form of a different terrifying animal. D735.2
• Disenchantment by three nights' silence under punishment. D758.1
• Disenchantment by taking key from serpent's mouth at midnight. The disenchanter is to take the key (three keys) from the mouth of the woman in serpent form with his own mouth. D759.1
• Snake disenchanted by being allowed to wrap itself three times around person's neck. D759.8
• Three soldiers in the enchanted manor. Curiosity overcoming them they forfeit the power of disenchanting the princesses. Seven seven-year-old boys break the spell and save the princess. D759.10
• Disenchantment by proper person waking from magic sleep. The enchanted person appears three times and if the sleeper does not wake by the third time the enchantment must last. D762
• Disenchantment by refusing to eat for three days. D764.7
• Disenchantment at midnight after owl hoots three times. D791.1.8
• Three as magic number. D1273.1.1
• Three on a match (lighting cigarettes or cigars). D1273.1.1.1
• Breakage of glass or crockery occurs in threes. One breakage is followed by two more. D1273.1.1.2
• Deaths in a community come in threes. One death is shortly followed by two more. D1273.1.1.3
• Three meditations on death which prevent laughter. D1273.1.1.4
• Stone bleeds three days before church is plundered. D1317.12.1
• Churchyard mould produces love. Girl takes three handfuls and passes it over churn. (Cf. D1278.1.) D1355.6
• Magic fan produces rain. Must be waved three times. (Cf. D1077.) D1542.1.4
• Magic sight by standing alone for three days. D1821.10
• St. Cecilia withstands three blows of beheading sword and lives three days after. D1840.1.3
• Saint kept in boiling water for three days shows no signs of discomfort. D1841.2.1
• Death postponed for three generations. D1855.6
• Three Nephites are granted quasi-immortal state by Jesus Christ at time of resurrection. (Cf. V294.) D1856.2
• Youngest of the three Magi becomes the senior through power of the Savior. D1897
• Three-fold magic sleep. Husband (lover) put to sleep by false bride. Only on the third night (the last chance) he wakes. D1971
• Three days and three nights seem one hour as saint preaches. (Cf. Z71.1.1.) D2011.1.2
• Earth dried up in three years while hero is under earth. D2081.1
• Resuscitation by vigil at tomb. Vigil is for stated time, three weeks and three days, or the like. E62
• Resuscitation of decapitated princess by hero by imitating ogre's actions of night before: passing sword three times up and down her throat. E149.2
• Resuscitation even possible after three days. E162.1
• Revenant as three-legged horse. E423.1.3.1
• Three worlds of dead. E480.2
• Dead awaken after three days to new life and great wisdom. E489.1
• Three-legged dogs in wild hunt. E501.4.1.6
• Three-legged ghost of horse. E521.1.2
• Ghostly chair in cellar jumps up and down on three legs, points with fourth at spot on floor. Witnesses dig up body from under floor. E539.4.1
• Soul in three separate eggs. E711.1.1
• Fairies made visible when person walks three times around field where cows are grazing at night. (Cf. D1791.) F235.9