Urmas

There are among the characters of Gypsy stories and creatures close to European mythology - Urmas.

These are familiar fairies who arrange their dances at night and are able to determine the fate of people. According to legend, they live on the tops of mountains in huge golden palaces. During the day they dance and frolic, and at night, when the gypsies are sleeping, they descend from the mountains, approach the cradle of newborns and determine their fate.

Interestingly, the urms always go three together:

• one of them is kind, she gives people happiness; the other is cold, she is indifferent to the fate of people and does not give them any joy or grief; the third is evil, she sends misfortune and sorrow to people.

This image is somewhat reminiscent of the Norn from Germanic-Scandinavian mythology, Moir from ancient Greek mythology, Parks from ancient Roman and Sudzhenits from Slavic.