Parcae

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In Roman mythology, the Fates (in Latin Parcae) were the personifications of Fatum or destiny. They controlled the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal and immortal from birth to death.

Their Greek equivalents were the Moirai; and in the Norse mythology of the North Germanic peoples, the Norns.

The Fates are the goddesses of fate.

They are three spinning sisters who personify birth, life and death.

They wrote the fate of people on the walls of a huge bronze wall and no one could erase what they wrote.

Their names were Nona, Decima and Morta. In Greek they were called: Clotho, Laquesis and Atropos. In Norse mythology they were known as Urðr (or Urd, "what has happened", fate), Verðandi (or Verdandi, "what happens now") and Skuld ("what should happen, or is necessary to happen").

They are in charge of taking the deceased souls to places where they belong (Hell, Heaven, Purgatory)

The three of them were spinning; then they cut the thread that measured the length of life with scissors and that cut fixed the moment of death. They spun white wool and mixed gold threads and black wool threads.

The gold threads signified the happy moments in people's lives and the black wool, the sad periods.