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The ancient roots of Italy’s Festa della Befana

1 January 2024

6:00 PM

1 January 2024

6:00 PM

In Italy if you are not careful, you are condemned to measure out your life in religious festivals. There are so many of them. Perhaps that’s why I find La Befana a bit of a pain coming as it does so hard on the heels of so many others. Or maybe it’s because it is essentially a pagan festival and our civilisation has lost all contact with that world.

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