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Folklore by Numbers

1

1 night to build a house

1st Thursday in May to offer pins to the Oracle

1st Sunday in May to cure the lame

1 hare helped build a church

1 fish only per day for Saint Neot

2

2 women to bathe a child

2nd Thursday in May to offer pins to the Oracle

2 pins crossed to ask a question 

2 visits home

2 saints to guard a sinner

2 wives for a king


2 nunneries to repent for regicide

2 years old to look at, but many ages in each eye

2 deer helped build a church 

2 fish to stock a well

2 arrows for a king to gift

3

3 Wednesdays in May to affect a cure

3 times dipped in the well and...

3 times widdershins around the chapel for the child's cure

3 mornings before breakfast and the dawn of day for the cure to work

3rd Thursday in May to offer pins to the Oracle

3 Wednesdays in May to brake a changelings spell

3 Boys on a lonely moor

3 spinsters build dolmen before breakfast

3 times naked through Men-an-Tol to cure a child then...

3 times drawn against the sun on the grass

3 times against the sun to free a changelings spell

3 months to seduce a maiden

3 wishes for rescuing a mermaid

3 versions to spin a tale

3 Crowns in the English Civil War

3 Crowns and 3 ghosts

3 women verify a ghost

300 pounds for laying a ghost

3 times to bind a sinner down

3, the trinity, to stop a goat and a king 

3 times calling the name to summon and command a wretched spirit

3 times around a lake to escape the black dogs of hell

3 times to tell a tale

3 times 3 stones on the moor

3 phases of the moon

3 years of body, ancient of eyes

3 times around a tree backwards for a wish

3 men's songs

3 times Saint Neot ate the same fish

3 mornings in May to effect a cure

3 fish to stock a well

4

4 rocks for 3 spinsters

4 leaved clovers

4 arrows for a king to keep

5

[none so far]

6

6 faerie companions

6 legs for a faerie coffin

6 fairies to bare a coffin

6 new arrows for a king

6 parsons to lay a thieving squire 

7

7 times through Men-an-Tol to fall pregnant

8

8 hour shift for the faeries

9

9 stones though there be 17

9 maidens though more remain

9 once again where only 16 stand

9 times through the Tolman to cure rhumatism

9 times through Men-an-Tol to cure rickets

10

10 years old and witness to murder 

10 years to build a nunnery

11

11 years old and witness to murder 

11 bells in Exeter Cathedral, for one was cracked

12

12 hours to fortify a headland