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Befana

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Befana
fairy fills stockings with toys on Twelfth Night. [Ital. Legend: LLEI, I: 323]
See : Christmas

Befana
female Santa Claus who comes at Epiphany. [Ital. Legend: Walsh Classical, 50]


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Schools hold Christmas concerts before the start of the holidays which contain Christmas themes, relating stories of the Nativity, Santa Clause, the Befana or the Baboushka for instance.
The belief was that La Befana became lost on her way to deliver gifts to the Christ child and began delivering gifts to all youngsters.
In Italy on Epiphany night, children believe that an old lady called Befana brings presents and children put stockings up by the fireplace for Befana to fill.
 
 
 
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