The monotonous aspect of the Alfdld is in summer time varied by the deli-bdb, or Fata Morgana.
The custom is common among several savage races, and these women, represented in the spiritual world by Fata, bequeath to us the French fee, in the sense of fairy.
The plural (Fata, the Fates) was used for the "destinies" of individuals or cities, and then for the three goddesses who controlled them.
Thus, Fata Scribunda were the goddesses who wrote down a man's destiny at his birth.
In this connexion, however, Fata may be singular, the masculine and feminine Fatus, Fata, being the usual forms in popular and ceremonial language.