Monday, January 6, 2014

Many greetings from Befana


The Christmas Market of Bolzano is closing today and Befana is greeting you!

In popular folklore Befana visits all the children of Italy on the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany to fill their socks with candy and presents if they are good or a lump of coal or dark candy if they are bad.



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8 comments:

cieldequimper said...

So the children have Saint Nicholas and then Befana! :-)

January 6, 2014 at 8:12 AM
PerthDailyPhoto said...

Oh my goodness, you would want to be good :)

January 6, 2014 at 10:13 AM
Sharon said...

An extra holiday treat! I'm all for that.

January 6, 2014 at 2:23 PM
Lowell said...

That's very interesting. I wonder how such a festival came to be. Bad kids really get socked, though, with lumps of coal from Santa and Befana! I would have been in so much trouble!

January 6, 2014 at 4:57 PM
VP said...

A perfect Befana!

January 6, 2014 at 5:59 PM
Taken For Granted said...

Didn't know about Befana, but did know about the lump of coal. Someone gave me a Lump of Coal Stout for Christmas. I couldn't have been all bad, it was stout after all.

January 6, 2014 at 6:46 PM
Jack said...

It is a lovely photo, Karl. Isn't interesting how many different Christmas or Christmastime traditions have developed around the globe and how similar they are?

January 7, 2014 at 4:25 AM
William Kendall said...

These days, the price of coal might be a good reason to get coal in the stocking!

January 11, 2014 at 4:59 PM

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