A similar fate befalls the princess's second and third child, who are replaced, respectively, by a kitten and a stone, cast in the sea in a box and saved by the same old couple.
[9] In a Palestinian tale from Birzeit, collected by Orientalist Paul E. Kahle with the title Die ausgesetzten Zwillingskinder ("The abandoned twin children"), the third and youngest sister promises to give birth to twins, a boy and a girl with silver and golden hair, but the girl shall have three teeth: one to quench the thirsty, the second to satiate the hungry and the third to feed the tired.
One day, the king and his vizier just happen to pass by their house, when they overhear their conversation: the elder sister claims she can bake a cake to feed the whole army; the middle sister that she can make a candle large enough to illuminate the whole palace, and the youngest promises to bear him twins, a boy brave and strong enough to defeat a whole army and a girl with hair of gold and hair of silver.
Lastly, he divorces the middle sister and marries the youngest, who gets pregnant and gives birth to her wondrous twins, both "more beautiful than the sun and the moon".
[14] Author Penninah Schram published an Israeli tale titled Children of the King: three sisters live together who are skilled weavers, but the youngest has the best craftsmanship.
The king marries the third sister, to the jealousy of the elder two, who conspire with the midwife to take the babies, replace them for cats and abandon them in the woods.
Years later, the aunts pass by the old woman's house and, realizing their nephews and niece are alive, she convinces the sister to send her brothers on a quest for a pool and a nightingale that sings songs.
[16] In a tale from the Bedouins in Israel, collected from a source from the ʽArab el-Zbēdāt tribe with the title The Three Siblings and the Talking Birds, a king has three wives, then marries a fourth one.
One day, when they are older, the midwife pays them a visit and convinces the sister to ask her brother to find her the "half-world mirror" that can see into half of the world.
When the woman bears him the twins, "beautiful like the sun and moon", the seven female cousins bribe a midwife to take the children and cast them in a box in the sea, placing two dogs next to their mother.
Later, the same Old Woman of Evil pays them a visit and tells Shams to ask her brother to bring her the "buzzing and bells thing" (the collectors mention that it is a tree).
When the girl attains marriageable age, she begins to take a keen interest in the gardener's adopted sons, which leads to the truth being exposed.
[20] In an Arab variant, "Царевич и три девушки" ("The Emperor and the Three Girls"), three poor weaving sisters work late at night by candlelight, when the prince comes and spies on them.
They spy on their conversation: the elder sisters wish to marry the king's baker and cook, respectively, to have access to good food, while the youngest says she "dreams" of marrying the king and promises to bear him twins, a boy with half of his hair of gold and the other of silver, and a girl whose laugh can make the sun shine and whose sadness makes the rain come.
Fortunately, Razan does give birth to her twins, to the chagrin of the king's two co-wives, who take the children and cast them in the river in a basket, and place little animals in the cradle.
They later decide to see the world, and sail on a raft that is found by a seaman (who is in reality a disguised king of fairies), who takes the twins as their own and raises them.
[6] In a Middle Eastern tale collected from a Lebanese teller and translated as The Shrieking Nightingale, four poor sisters, Watfa, Alya, Nasma and Najma, work by spinning wool and selling it.
The king's son, Maher, just happens to enter the room to inquire the youngest sister about her decision; she answers that she might feel humiliated by being the wife of the prince.
However, the elder sisters begin to hate their cadette's fortune, and conspire to harm her: they bribe the midwife to replace Najma's children, a boy and a girl, for a dog and a stone.
[24] In a Lebanese tale translated by author Inea Bushnaq as The Nightingale that Speaks, to test his subjects' loyalty, a king orders that no one shall keep any light at night.
[25] In a Syrian variant from Tur Abdin, collected by Eugen Prym and Albert Socin, Ssa'îd, the king of grasshoppers, has three wives, but no children yet.
When their sister gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl, they cast the children in a box in the river and tell the king the babies were stillborn.
Years later, when the sheik dies, their jealous aunts send them for the silver water, the golden tree and the truth-telling peacock, located in the Mountain of Wonders.
She is told she must never reveal the truth to her husband, the king, so she buys a doll to confide in (akin to The Young Slave and ATU 894, "The Stone of Pity [fr]").
[30][9] In a dialectal variant collected in Baghdad with the title The Nightingale, a sultan's son camps out with his army near the grand vizier's three daughters.
Each of the girls announce their wishes to marry the sultan's son by performing grand feats: the oldest by baking a loaf of bread to feed the sultan's son and the army, the middle by weaving a carpet large enough for everyone to seat, and the youngest by bearing twins, a boy with gold locks and a girl with silver locks.
[31] In a tale from the Assyrian people published by Russo-Assyrian author Konstantin P. (Bar-Mattai) Matveev [ru] with the title "Царь Шах-Аббас и три девушки" ("Tsar Shah-Abbas and the Three Girls"), Emperor Shah Abbas spies on three sisters talking, the youngest promising to bear male twins with curls of pearl.
By the saqiyah, three sisters are talking to each other, all of them wishing to marry the king's son: the eldest boasts she can cook a small pot of food to feed the entire army, the middle one that she can weave a carpet for the whole army to sit, which can be folded to fit in his pocket, and the youngest promises to bear twins, one with head of gold, the other with head of silver.
As for the third sister, she gives birth to her promised children, twin boys, who are replaced for puppies and cast in the water in a box by the first wife.
[33] As part of fieldwork in Jizan region, researcher Waleed Ahmed Himli collected in 2008 a tale from 88-year-old teller Nema Amshanaq.