The Twelve Months — Eastern Europe & Slavic (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to a snowy Czech and Slovak mountainside, where Maruška is sent into January weather to find spring violets, summer strawberries, and autumn apples. High above the forest she discovers twelve brothers around a fire, each waiting for his turn to carry the year.
Source & tradition: Czech and Slovak folktale “O dvanácti měsíčkách,” collected and retold by Božena Němcová. The English text appeared in Josef Baudiš's Czech Folk Tales (1917), and the Czech text is preserved in Němcová's Slovenské pohádky a pověsti. Original prose retelling.
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