Clifford J OCHELTREE wrote: > Three has some mystical significance, the trinity > perhaps. My OCHELTREE line is said to have originated > with "three brothers" as have may other families. Have > you ever noticed that it's never "three sisters" or "two > brothers and their sister." I imagine that in the Christian era the Trinity is the reference point, but wouldn't be at all surprised to see much earlier origins for the significance of three. I was a college instructor in folklore in another life, but that was 30+ years ago, so I've forgotten what little I once knew. If memory serves three was also important to the Greeks, as in the Pythagorean theorem. Chris