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polariod240 · 3 days ago

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I really wish La Befana was celebrated internationally, just so we could have holidays media where she appears out of nowhere, like Santa does in Hallmark movies.

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#tbf she's not even celebrated in all Italy but I adore her #she deserves a crossover movie with Saint Lucy #and the target audience would be? me #yes i know we got those two movies starring Cortellesi but my point still stands #anyway she's a old whimsical lady witch that puts sweets inside children's stockins very much like Santa #but in the ol times (and I mean Ancient Rome and even before that) she was the goddess Diana Nemorense #she was said to fly in the sky with her handmaidens to bless crops after traveling to the realm of the dead in three days #then she got mixed with ancient egyptian goddess Isis in Ancient Rome so now she also had magical powers and/or a witch #and story went on until she became an old witch lady in the cultural sphere

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