STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- "La Befana," aka the gift-bearing Italian witch, sweeps up on Staten Island, Jan. 10 at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden. Children ages 3 and up can make ...

They are dispensed overnight, according to Italian folklore, by the Befana, a broom-riding old hag with a strict naughty-or-nice ethic. To fall on her wrong side was to wake up Jan. 6 to a ...

A major figure in Italian folklore, La Befana brings gifts to children on the night of Jan. 5, the eve of Epiphany. Befana is hedging her bets.

In Italian folklore, Befana is an old woman who delivers gifts to children throughout Italy on Epiphany Eve (the night of Jan. 5).

In Italian folklore, Befana is a haggard old lady who streaks across the sky on her broomstick with a sack or hamper with gifts and good tidings for the year ahead.

Spirits or angels helped her seek the Miraculous Child from Dec. 25 to Jan. 6. La Befana wanted to tidy up the area where the Child slept with her broom. This would be her gift to the Child.

Union Endicott High School’s Italian Club officers were there to assist in translation. The presentation, which consisted of a play and a show-and-tell with La Befana herself, was shown to the ...

Piateski explains that in Italian folklore, an old woman named Befana rides around on a broomstick and puts candy into the stockings of good children and coal in the stockings of bad ones.

Barbara Cuoghi, trans. from the Italian by Genni Gunn, illus. by Elenia Beretta. Greystone, $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-77840-146-6 La Befana, a winter witch from Italian folklore, introduces herself ...

While casting a spell through witches, fantasy and Italian folklore, the project is said to touch on universal themes of grief, community, love and family. Danny plays the Befano to Anjelica’s ...

Befana the gift-giving witch visited children at this hospital in Taranto, Italy on Wednesday (1/6). According to Italian folklore, Befana brings kids presents and sweets for the Epiphany, a ...