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News Article: The Presence of the Number 3 in Folktales
Posted: 2007-07-24 By SNStaff
 Storyteller.net director Sean Buvala explores the use of the number 3 in folktales. "Having a third option or character allows for some a gray middle in a world of black and white extremes. The number three pierces the polarity of the points of one and two (Schneider 39). This third provides the balance of youngest to older and oldest, industrious to lazy and laziest, just right to too hard and too soft, the option between the yes and no. Psychologist Carl Jung offers another view of the power of three. He wrote, ’Every tension of opposites culminates in a release, out of which comes the third. In the third, the tension is resolved and the lost unity is restored.’" You can read the article when you click here now.
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