AN OLD SUPERSTITION.

Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1140, 21 July 1930, Page 3

AN OLD SUPERSTITION.

“ THREE ” IS SO LUCKY. The superstition that three is a lucky number i s a survival from primitive mythology. Even numbers were considered masculine, while odd numbers | were taken is feminine. | Folk considered that there was a certain amount of luck attached to odu j numbers, but specially three and multiples of three. Medicine wa ahvays * prescribed to be taken an odd number f of times per day, which practice survives to-day, witness the unwelcome command: “To be taken three times a day, after meals! ” Chinese pagoda s were always built with an odd number of storeys. This universal reverence for “three” is because it donates the mystery of birth. There is a man and a woman, and then their child makes three; a marvelloug number, of truly fortunate omen, thought' primitive men. The idea underlies all the, moral and philosophical significance of three, as 1 seen in the Three Graces, Three Fates, the three wishes of th 3 fairy tales, and j even our own three cardinal virtues: j Faith, Hope, and Charity! j \