A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.

WELLINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - (This Jan. 22 story has been corrected to say '12 months through November,' not '12 months to November,' in the headline and paragraphs 1, 2, and 8; to say 'ended ...