ATU 501: The Three Old Spinning Women (previously The Three Old Women Helpers)

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The first resolved plot component matches the three old spinning women type: three deformed spinners help with an impossible flax test in exchange for wedding invitations; the king sees their deformities, hears they came from spinning, and forbids further spinning. It is integrated with the later ATU 500 naming plot, so this is a possible combined tale-type assignment, not a claim that it alone describes every unit.

• „do seten dar dree ole Hexen un spunnen“
• „elkeen (jede von ihnen) kunn fœr ęr een Pund spinnen“
• „Dat kummt vun all mien tippen, tippen Sidespinnen.“
• „mien Königin schall in ęr Lęwent nich wedder Side spinnen“