A simbologia dos números três e sete em contos maravilhosos

Of all the genres of popular literature, the tale is certainly the one that has come to be best associated with cognitive and socio-emotional development of the child, because it helps the child to deal with the problems of growing up, and to face the world in a more natural way. Consequently, the fairy tale has always had the great objective to entertain, but also, and above all, to teach. Thus the symbolic importance of the numbers three and seven, which convey concepts like perfection and wholeness, assume a central role in understanding our actions. Both the magic of the number three and the fullness of the number seven deeply affect Western thought, and so are naturally present in people’s art, from which comes from fairy tales.