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** In "[[Jack and the Beanstalk]]", Jack steals three treasures from the giant: a bag of gold, a goose that lays golden eggs, and a singing harp.
** "The Honey Princess": Three princes are set to accomplish three tasks in order to win three princesses' hands in marriage.
** "[https://web.archive.org/web/20190710220635/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rumpelstiltskin/stories/3spinners.html The Three Spinners]" help a girl against an impossible spinning task.
** In "[[Brother and Sister]]", it is the third stream that Brother drinks from; it is the third time he goes out to hunt that the king finds Sister; it was the third time she returned from the dead that her husband caught her and brought her back to life.
** In "[[East of the Sun and West of the Moon|East of the Sun West of The Moon]]", the heroine meets three women who give her gifts; she uses them to bribe her way to her husband, and the third time, he is not drugged to sleep.
** In "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/maidmaleen/index.html Maid Maleen]", when she is pretending to be the bride, she speaks to three objects; the bride must find out from her three times what she said, and the bridegroom figures out the substitution.
** In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130814130639/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/186truesweetheart.html The True Sweetheart]", the heroine goes to the ball three times.
* Anecdotes have plenty of examples. For an example, three nation anecdotes.
* Shows up all the time in religion:
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