RE: Happy Befana Day!
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I like all the different traditions around this festival in various countries. It has become a bit generic here with the red and white Santa. I saw some other versions in Germany when I lived there. Kids didn't expect so many presents in the olden days, but it's all commercial now. It's more about the family for me.
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When my mom was a little child (now she's 75 years old) the Befana used to give to the lucky children some tangerines. She still remember how happy she was the first time she received a tangerine! Sure, at that time there was no Santa around, but the children were very very happy to receive little poor things like a tangerine. Today I think some children have too much toys and too much things to appreciate the gift they received. At that time the Befana was also an educational figure, because she delivered gifts to say the child was a good little one, so parents used to say "If you're a rascal boy/girl, Befana will no give you good things, but just a piece of coal". 😊
We have the coal thing too, but I don't know how many kids actually got some. I'll admit that we did spoil the kids when they were little. Maybe we'll have grandkids some day to spoil.
!PIZZA