" 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 , who mentions the fairy tale as a preaching exemplum.
13-406: (Redirected from Twelve Months ) The Twelve Months or Twelve Months may refer to: The Twelve Months (fairy tale) The Twelve Months (1956 film) , 1956 film The Twelve Months (1972 film) , 1972 film Twelve Months (1980 film) , 1980 film Twelve Months, the planned upcoming 18th The Dresden Files novel Topics referred to by
26-424: A reward of gold. One greedy woman desires to collect the bounty and instead of sending her own daughter, readily sends her young stepdaughter, Anja, to look for the white-blossomed flowers in the deep forest during a night snowstorm despite knowing the task will be impossible. Despite refusing, Anja is cast into the blizzard by her stepmother and in the barren forest, falls unconscious from the freezing cold. Later, she
39-560: Is a 1980 animated feature film directed by Kimio Yabuki and produced by Toei Animation from Japan in partnership with Soyuzmultfilm from the Soviet Union . It was based on the 1943 play written by Samuil Marshak which itself was based on the medieval fairy tale of the same name . The music was composed by Vladimir Ivanovich Krivtsov and performed by the National Leningrad Philharmonic under
52-526: Is awoken and is drawn to a light in the distance from a mysterious bonfire, surrounded by spirits whom reveal themselves as the Twelve Months. Learning of her task, the twelve spirits take pity on Anja. They use their powers to temporarily bring spring to allow the flowers to grow and be collected but requests no one is to know how and where she obtained the Galanthus. A grateful Anja returns home with
65-542: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Twelve Months (fairy tale) It was later collected by one of the most famous Czech writers - Božena Němcová . 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. She must get spring violets, summer strawberries and fall apples in midwinter as presents to give her stepsister for her birthday. The girl ventures out into
78-576: The personified Twelve Months appear in tale types ATU 510A, " Cinderella ", and type ATU 480, " The Spinning-Woman by the Spring " (also known as "The Kind and the Unkind Girls"). The fairy tale was later adapted as a theater play by a Russian writer, Samuil Marshak in 1943, and subsequently in the Soviet cinematography. There's also a Czech film adaptation from 2012. The Russian adaptations of
91-764: The Slovak folk fairy tale are often mistaken for the original , they often vary from the original, mainly by adding new characters (like the young girl of the Russian nobility, a Russian soldier, etc.) Some adaptations originated from other adaptations, e.g. the Japanese Twelve Months (1980 film) . Twelve Months (1980 film) Twelve Months ( 世界名作童話 森は生きている , Sekai Meisaku Dōwa: Mori wa Ikiteiru , lit. ' World Masterpiece Fairy Tales: The Forest That Lives ' ; Russian : Двенадцать месяцев , romanized : Dvenadcať mesjacev )
104-409: The blizzard cold and eventually meets the 12 personified months by a warm fire in the woods. When she approaches and asks politely if she can warm her hands at their fire, they ask why she is here, and when she tells them about her step-family and what she is looking for, the spirits help her. The child spirit of March creates the violets, youthful June the strawberries, and grown September the apples, at
117-554: The direction of A. S. Dmitriev. Preceded by The Wild Swans (1977) and Thumbelina (1978), and followed by Swan Lake (1981) and Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1982), it represents the third episode in Toei's World Masterpiece Fairy Tales film series. A spoiled, young queen asks for the impossible during a cold winter and requests for a bouquet of Galanthus , a spring wildflower, for New Year's Day in exchange for
130-484: The direction of the elderly January. The stepmother and sister takes their items, without a word of thanks. When the evil stepsister comes to search for the twelve months herself in the snow, hoping for gifts of her own, the spirits disappear, taking their fire, and leaving the stepsister cold and hungry, searching for eternity. The same fate lay in store for the wicked stepmother. She too let greed run away with her and to this day she still searches in an unfriendly forest for
143-521: The path back to her home. The kind sister remained in her house, and lived happily ever after. The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 480, "The Kind and Unkind Girls". According to scholar Warren Roberts, tale type ATU 480 with the Twelve Months form a cycle of tales that appear in Southeastern Europe , namely, Italy, Greece, Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria. The characters of
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#1732765138290156-421: The requested flowers and the bouquet is presented to the queen by her stepmother and stepsister, but the dissatisfied queen wishes to see where the flowers grow for herself. The stepsister and stepmother secretly follow Anja into the forest and lead the queen there as well. The Twelve Months come to save Anja from the others and turns her stepsister and stepmother into dogs. Anja drives away in a sledge together with
169-431: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Twelve Months . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Twelve_Months&oldid=1248467001 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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