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Befa`na

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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An Italian female Santa Claus, who on Twelfth Night fills the stockings of good children with good things, and those of bad with ashes.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Befa`na'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/befana.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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