Reply To: Who are the spinsters?

The greek version of the fates as spinners definitely applies, but I think it is but one guise the BF uses perhaps.  The other verison I linked besides the Moirae, is the Norns, and what stood out  there was Ygrdassil, the magic tree.  We saw pixie dust grows on trees right, and we associated fairies with it.

We also know there are literally magic trees, in the cabinet and what Pinocchio ‘s source tree.  BF associated with those.  Regina also has some kind of thing with her apple tree, if they are going to get into that at all.

Beside these three norns, there are many other norns who arrive when a person is born in order to determine his or her future

Norns Wiki   That sounds to me like Barries idea that a baby’s laugh made fairies a little bit.

Now the Norns are divided into the past, present and future.   In the myth they were originally from Jotunheim, and Giantesses (hello beans!), but also there are references to them being kin to Dwarves.  (scroll down on the wiki page).

It is further said that these Norns who dwell by the Well of Urdr take water of the well every day, and with it that clay which lies about the well, and sprinkle it over the Ash, to the end that its limbs shall not wither nor rot; for that water is so holy that all things which come there into the well become as white as the film which lies within the egg-shell,–as is here said:

Again from that wiki page, the reference to a well, and holy water.  I  remember August’s speech at the well about if something would be magical, it would be water.  THen there’s the NL spring that keeps you young.

That poem the quote is from continues:

That dew which falls from it onto the earth is called by men honey-dew, and thereon are bees nourished. Two fowls are fed in Urdr’s Well: they are called Swans, and from those fowls has come the race of birds which is so called.

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Now in some versions, the youngest of the Norns is Skuld who sees the future (the Seer, a child and then young woman, contrast to the older spinner ladies).

Anyway not sure which influences they’re bringing in to their show here, but I definitely think these 2 Spinners seem…Sneaky.