Daughters of the night (II): the fate of the Fates between past and present

Abstract

Although in Antiquity the fate was present in popular religiosity and official religion, philosophy, literature and arts, and it had itself different conceptions, it reached a status of mithological reality when Hesiod introduced it at the Theogonia like a trio of divinities, Nix´s daughters: the daughters of the Night. All Indoeuropean peoples have known such divinities of Destiny, but today we want to study its enduring presence from Roman age at mithology and popular beliefs of the Romanian people, where they take the shape of some mithic feminine characters usually named Ursitoare, whose main attribute is to establish the luck, the destiny of the human being, from birth to death.