"The Twelve Months" is a Czech fairy tale, which was first mentioned by a Czech writer, scholar, physician, lexicographer, canon of the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague and a master of the University of Prague in the 14th century - mistr Klaret/Bartoloměj z Chlumce,[1] who mentions the fairy tale as a preaching exemplum.
A young and beautiful girl (called Maruška in some variations) is sent into the cold forest in the winter to perform impossible tasks by her evil stepmother.
The girl ventures out into the blizzard cold and eventually meets the 12 personified months by a warm fire in the woods.
The child spirit of March creates the violets, youthful June the strawberries, and grown September the apples, at the direction of the elderly January.
[5] Some literary critics claim that the fairy tale was later adapted as a theater play by a Russian writer, Samuil Marshak in 1943, and subsequently in the Soviet cinematography.