are you ready ? befana is cooming
Hallo folk, are you ready for the last party of Christmas time. This event will close all the winter vacations and -luckily or unluckily- we will return to the normal life.I hope your Epiphany stocking is clean and ready but above all I hope it is very very big. As in other country this old woman -called Befena- comes in every home during the night and if you have been a good fellow, she leaves you some candies and sweets, but if you have been bad boy/ girl....alas! Only black coal.
I wanna write you a very famous Italian filastrocca = nursery rhyme for this occasion.
La befana vien di notte con le scarpe tutte rotte… Vien dal cielo con la scopae sui tetti pian si posa, e poi scende piano e lesta dai camini con la cesta.
La befana é una vecchietta un po’ brutta poveretta, ma ai bambini poco importa se la cesta é colma colma tutta piena di regali, dolci, treni, bamboline per riempire le calzine.
La befana con la cesta cerca, cerca la calzetta e soltanto ai bimbi buoni lei ci mette tanti doni ma a chi é stato un po’ birbone, lei la colma con carbone.
La befana é già sul tetto presto bimbi tutti a letto! Lasciam sola la vecchietta a riempire la calzetta, che doman di buon mattino
scopriremo il regalino!
Here my Epiphany stocking...all green as the hope that I have been a good girl but...who can say that?
Anyway what about you? have you been good fellow?
coal or candy? good question!
Ps some traditional events in Italy for this occasion in the following link
http://www.learnitalianow.net/2012/01/now-in-italy-for-twelfth-night.html