Girl Power Times Three

courtesy of Jean Marie Ward

If numbers have power, three qualifies as the 800-pound gorilla in the middle of the room. Everybody knows about the Three Kings and the Three Stooges--not to mention “Three strikes, you’re out”. But did you know it’s a power number for women--especially sisters? And these are women you don’t want to mess with.

1. Three Sisters (play by Chekov)
2. Three Graces (Greek & Roman Mythology)
3. Three Sisters (corn, beans and squash--the three main food crops of the Native American tribes in New England, which can be grown together for the benefit of all)
4. Three Sisters Islands (three islands in the Potomac River near Washington, DC)
5. Three Norns (Norse mythology)
6. The Three Sisters (three Irish rivers, all arising in the mountains of County Tipperary, which flow into the sea in the same bay southwest of Waterford)
7. Three Fates (Greek & Roman Mythology)
8. Drei Schwestern (a group of three mountains forming a natural boundary between Lichtenstein and Austria)
9. Three Witches (Shakespeare’s Macbeth)
10. Three Sisters (a single mountain with three peaks near Fernie in British Columbia)
11. Three Furies (Greek & Roman Mythology)
12. Three Gorgons (Greek & Roman Mythology)
13. Tri Sestry (a volcano in the Kuril Islands in Russia)