Festa della befana

It's a tradition celebrated on the 6th day of january, right after Christmas and new year's day. In fact, it is thought that after the end of the year, the befana, an old woman flying on a broomstick, passes through every home during that night and brings something. So you have to put a pair of socks under the Christmas tree. If you have behaved well during the year she gives you sweets, if not she gives you coal, as a punishment.

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