Italy´s Christmas witch

Never mind Santa Claus, here on the eve of the Epiphany on January 6th (the 12th day of Christmas) a friendly strega (witch) called La Befana comes overnight to leave good children candies and presents and the bad ones lumps of coal (though since every kid (though since every kid has likely been bad once or twice during the year, in their stocking they´ll also get dark-colored rock candy, to symbolize coal).

Read more in my post A Quirky Christmas to All! 10 of the World´s Weirdest Yuletide Traditions.

 

Truus, Bob & Jan too!!

 

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