Winter solstice instant of the solstice can be calculated, direct observation of the solstice by amateurs is impossible because the sun moves too slowly or appears to stand still (the meaning of "solstice"). However, by use of astronomical data tracking, the precise timing of its occurrence is now public knowledge. One cannot directly detect the precise instant of the solstice (by definition, one cannot observe that an object has stopped moving until one later observes that it has not moved further from the preceding spot, or that it has moved in the opposite direction). Further, to be precise to a single day,
The Twelve Months (fairy tale) 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 the path back to her home. The Twelve Months (fairy tale) "The Twelve Months" is a Russian fairy tale collected by Georgios A. Megas in "Folktales of Greece". It is Aarne-Thompson type 480, the kind and the unkind girls. Others of this type include "Diamonds and Toads", "The Enchanted Wreath", "Mother Hulda", "Maiden Bright-eye", "The Old Witch", "The Three Heads in the Well", "The Months", and "The Two Caskets". A young and beautiful girl called