The Moirai

The Fates — Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos — "who give men at their birth both evil and good to have". Hesiod gives them two parentages in one poem, daughters of Night and daughters of Zeus and Themis; Apollodorus keeps the second; Homer never names three but speaks of Fate and "the dread Spinners" who spin a man's thread at birth.