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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]

See : Generosity

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