Crafty Kitchen Witch

The Befana is a simultaneously good and stern old woman who visits homes where children live on the night between January 5 and 6. To get from one house to another, she flies on a broom, which tradition has turned around with twigs on the front (thus in contrast to the way medieval “witches” carry it). This traveling old lady has a big nose and a protruding chin; she is more generous than beautiful. Her clothes are threadbare and her shoes old; on her head, she wears a rag to shelter her gray hair from the cold. While the children are sleeping, La Befana stuffs their socks with sweets and small toys, if the children during the year have been good, while she puts bits of coal or ashes in them if they have been too fussy. Children prepare to receive the Befana by leaving her a glass with a latte in the kitchen, along with the socks to be filled. May your Christmas be happy and blessed ✻✿ ✻*LIKE ✻✿ ✻* SHARE✻✿ ✻* Please don't forget to LIKE our posts and SHARE our page to keep us in yo...