The mighty number THREE

Birth -> Life -> Death

Three Blind Mice

Disasters come in threes. 

Three Little Kittens

Cinderella has two beyotch stepsisters and one vile stepmother = three crap relatives.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Father, Son, & Holy Spirit

Little boy who cried wolf – The third time he tries to prank the villagers, he meets his comeuppance – the little brat.

Mind, Body, Spirit

Three-act structure in fiction, aka beginning, middle, end.

Three Little Pigs

Shakespeare created three witches for MacBeth

King Lear had three daughters – Cordelia, Goneril, and Regan.

Maiden, Mother, Crone

Anton Chekov wrote a play in 1900 titled Three Sisters.

Jack and the Beanstalk – Jack steals three of the giant’s treasures:  singing harp, goose that lays golden eggs, and a sack of gold.

Third time’s the charm.

The vast world of literary trilogies:  Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins), The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy), Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel), His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman), The Crystal Cave (Mary Stewart) to name a few. 

Past -> Present -> Future

Can you think of other triads?

Luanna Stewart has been creating adventures for her imaginary friends since childhood. She spends her days writing contemporary romance, romantic suspense, paranormal romance, and historical romance. When not torturing her characters, she’s in her kitchen baking something delicious. She lives in Nova Scotia with her patient husband and four hens.

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