Page 17 of The Women of Wild Hill

It’s always three, isn’t it? Three Furies, three Fates, three Graces. Three Gray Sisters. Three faces of the goddess. Three Gorgons. Three golden apples. Three Little Pigs.

Why three? Search all you like for explanations. Even if human minds were capable of understanding the Old One’s ways, she might never reveal her motives. Just accept that the number three has power. The evidence is all around you.

When I was alive, people knew the world was a magical place.

Now, men of science laugh at the thought.

They want us to believe that magic and science are always opposed—just as zealots claim witches are enemies of all that is good.

Men of science are no different from men of God.

They want you to believe that they have all the answers.

They will never admit how little they know.

Science still has no explanation for the number three, but women instinctively feel its power.

While men dream of being “the one,” we’ve always preferred trios.

We’re focused less on glory and more at home with the unknown.

We don’t know why three works, but we know it does.

Three is the number that gets the job done.