It is related to the theme of the calumniated wife and is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children".
The sisters ask Mollâ Bâdji how Fâtme looks good every day, and the teacher suggests that the girls' mother is neglecting them, so they just have to get rid of her by drowning her in the vinegar jar.
The king and his son decide to summon the girls to their presence, and announce that the prince shall marry the elder sister, and she has to prove her claim.
The elder sisters, jealous of the youngest success, bribe an old matchmaker to get the twins and cast them in the water in a box, and put two puppies in their place.
The matchmaker follows the deadly plan; the king's son orders his wife to be cast in prison and buried in hot sand.
[8] Both Boulvin and Marzolph also classify the tale as type ATU 480, for its initial sequence: father remarries and, on his new wife's orders, abandons his three daughters somewhere in the wilderness.
After she becomes his wife, she gives birth to twins: "a son with a tuft of golden hair and a daughter with a face as beautiful as the moon".
Years later, when the brother passes by her, the youth throws a rose leaf at her, which prompts the king to summon his sisters-in-law.
In this tale, a king and a son spy on three sisters talking about their grandiose boasts: the elder boasts she can weave a carpet large enough to accommodate the dignitaries in only half of it; the middle one that she can cook with a single eggshell food for the whole army, and the youngest promises to bear twins, a girl with golden hair and a boy with pearl of teeth.
Years later, they move out to the city, and the boy is sent for the tree of laughing flowers, a magical robe and a fairy woman.
[17] In a variant from Bushehr Province, published in 2003 with the title شاه و هفت زن (English: "The Shah and the Seven Women"), a childless king hasn't fathered a son, despite being married to six co-wives.
He tells the other queens about the encounter and the six women, fearing the king might discover the truth, send the midwife to convince the twins to seek Manni Chen (a magical harp that sings) and a shining scarf from the ghouls.
[18] In an Iranian tale titled "پسر کاکلزری و دختر دندونمروارید" ("The Golden-Haired Son and the Pearly-Toothed Daughter"), three sisters live in poverty.
Later, the prince orders the girls to be brought to their presence: the elder cannot sew clothes with three spools and the middle one cooks her meal with too much salt that it becomes inedible.
The king takes off the youth's headwear and notices his golden hair, and sends for the female twin, deducing she is the pearly-toothed girl his wife promised.
The wazir rides high and low, until he finds a shepherd's three daughters talking near the river: the elder sister boasts she can cook a cauldron of pilaf to feed the entire kingdom, the middle one that she can weave a carpet to cover the entire world and, if rolled, it would be the size of a pistachio nut, and the youngest promises to give birth to a boy and a girl with hair bright like fire, faces bright as the sun and with a beauty mark on their brow.
[21] Russian linguist I. M. Oranksij [ru] collected a variant in the Parya language from kolhoznik Ašur Kamolov in 1961, in Hissar district.
[22] In a tale collected in Dushanbe and translated into Russian as "Непризнанный царевич" ("The Unidentified Prince"), a poor old man that gathers brushwood lives with a wife and son.
The tale then flashbacks to explains that the woman in the box was one of the wives of a local king, whose other co-wives tried to get rid of by bribing some servants to kill her.
Back to present time, the woman's boy grows up a fine youth and decides to find work in the royal palace.
One day, he goes on a hunt and meets three sisters; the middle one tells the king to marry her, for she will bear a smart child to him.
After nine months, while the king is away, the co-wife's "pinonch" assists her labour, and she gives birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl.
Years later, they are sent after a dress made by the claws of a fox, a magic mirror that can see the whole world and the talking parrot.
The parrot stops an accidental marriage between the king and his daughter, and the gardener tells the twins the truth of their adoption in a banquet with the monarch.
[25] In a Kurdish tale published by Kurdologist Margarita Rudenko with the title "Мирза-Мамуд и Хезаран-Больболь" ("Mirza-Mamud and Khezaran-Bolbol"), the padishah marries three sisters, the youngest promising to give birth to golden-haired twins, a boy and a girl.
The queen's sisters despair and send an old woman to convince Golizar and Mirza-Mamud to go on a dangerous quest for a maiden named Зардухубар (Zardukhubar).
Mirza-Mamud rescues Zardukhubar and they escape from an ogress (tale type ATU 313H*, connected to The Magical Flight or The Devil's Daughter).
[26] Kurdologists Ordîxanê Jalîl, Celîlê Celîl and Zine Jalil collected another Kurdish tale in 1976 from informant Osei Shababa.
The padishah marries the youngest and goes to war; a witch takes the children, replaces them for puppies and casts them in a box in the sea.
The tale then focuses on a prince, who meets Māh pīšānī and her two elder sisters: the elder promises to cook a man of rice to feed 500 people; the middle one that she can weave a carpet large enough for a thousand people, and Māh pīšānī promises to bear him a boy who can cry tears of pearl and a girl whose laughter produces flowers.