Three fairytales, which have fairytales rules character’s places, phrases that occur in ‘threes’ of two quite different fairytale authors; Goldilock & the three bears and Jack & The Beanstalk by Andrew Lang and Cinderella by Charles Perrault.
To begin Goldilocks and the three bears, in which the heroine upon finding their cottage in the woods, tests each porridge of three bears, three times. Ascending upstairs goes, she test the three chairs, each of the three bears, three times. Once returned upstairs the three bears discover her sleeping in the baby bed, for this is the one she has chosen.
In cinderella, the fairy godmother grants her three wishes with her magic wand to whisk her away from the cellar where she sweeps hard away all day,to the ball with three magical things; a White horse drawn carriage, a fine dress and some special glass slipper shoes, one of which she leaves on the stairs as she hastily escapes the palace dance hall and prince before midnight falls, lest she turn into a pumpkin.
In Jack & the Beanstalk, it is the young Jack who retrieves three things from the Giant up in the castle; the golden coins, the golden hen and finally the golden harp with it’s singing voice that cries out ‘master master’ when jack snatches it and forces him to quickly escape down the beanstalk, back to his mothers home. Re-calling the voice of the giant three times ‘fee fi fo fum I smell the blood of an English man’ he quickly chops down the giant stalk which lands the giant crashing on his feet.
