Seven
"Seven, Richie thought. That’s the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.” Stephen King, It Numerology, Wikipedia tells me, is any belief in the divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events. Numerologists call ‘7’ as the Seeker (but not in the Harry Potter Quidditch sense) and along with a host of other thinkers and writers for thousands of years they describe 7 in special terms. Here are seven ways in which 7 shows up: Seven colours of the rainbow Seven days in the week Seven deadly sins Seven wonders of the ancient world Seven continents Seven dwarves saved Snow White Seven stars in the Big Dipper or Great Bear constellation which help us locate the North Star One famous incidence of seven as a magic number took place in 1956 when George Miller published his paper on the working capacity of short term memory in The