How did that "they come in threes" superstition ever get started? Absolutely absurd, but if it's repeated often enough, it tends to be taken as fact.
The Crimean War, I believe. It's a variation of "three on a match," which was supposedly unlucky because it gave snipers time to focus on and shoot English soldiers.
Historically, every time two people have died, someone else dies sometime later. It's uncanny.
"How did that "they come in threes" superstition ever get started?
Old Irish saying foreboding death....the Italians just get a bird flying into the side of their house.