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Significance of the number 3 in fairy tales

 

This is an archived string from the SurLaLune Fairy Tales Discussion Board.

 

Maybe a theory that prehistoric people were able to count only “one, two, many”.
… the “three” in one context means “typical, average”.
… It happens three times, there is a pattern. 

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