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Befana
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Sarita Nanni
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Befana Illustrations and story by Sarita Nanni
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Every evening Befana goes to the woods to watch the Elves playing. She hides behind a bush in order not to scare them, but she would like very much to play with them. This evening the Elves are decorating the trees with flowers for the Spring celebration. It is night because the Elves don’t like to show themselves to the people and the moon up there watches what they are doing. The Elves once they have finished decorating the trees for tomorrow’s celebration they go to bed.
Oh!... what a scare! the witches are coming! They are very wicked! They surround Befana and they start to mock her and scare her… “Our dearest Befana! What are you doing in the woods at night all by your itty-bitty self? Aren’t you scared of the werewolf?”. “would you like to come with us for a little ride?”. Befana shaking watches them while they fly around her on their broomsticks. They are very ugly with those big hooked noses of theirs. “Come on cutie! Jump on one of our brooms we are going to have a ride”.
Without further ado they grab Befana by her arms and they drag her up through the night sky. Higher and higher they carry her to their bewitched castle above the clouds. “you’ll see you are going to be comfortable up here together with us! We just needed an apprentice”. Unfortunately Befana will remain in their castle for several years and the witches will teach her all about witchcraft and occult arts. But they will not succed to make her become wicked like themselves. She will remain sweet and sensitive like when she was a young girl…
One day the Elves run
short of ideas about the decorations of their trees. They learn that up there in the enchanted castle lives a little girl who has been kidnapped by the witches a long time ago and that she has learned the magic arts and they decide to go and rescue her. So sliping out quietly one night they enter inside the castle‌ They meet Befana who by now is not a young girl anymore, alas years have passed away‌ she is a sweet old lady and together with her they devise a plan to run away.
The witches come to take Befana
downstairs in the doungeon to teach her some other magic tricks. But they ignore who is waiting for them! Pim, pum, pack! The Elves and Befana give them a beating! The spell is broken and Befana together with her friends the Elves can go back to Earth.
Befana can’t give up magic but she decides to use it in the service of good instead of evil.
She loves to create toys to make children happy. So on the night of between the 5th and the 6th of january with her basket on her shoulder she lowers herself down the chimneys and distributes the presents she created. But a pinch of naughtiness has remained with her after all those years spent with the witches… Sure enough to the mischievous kids she leaves just coal!
This is an Italian traditional character… The story is a creation of mine!
A young girl called Befana peeks at the Elves playing games. But 2 wicked witches are lurking! They kidnap her and they take her to their castle in the clouds. But she will find a way to escape…
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