Befana "Viene, viene la Befana"<br> "Vien dai monti a notte fonda"<br> "Come è stanca! la circonda "<br> "Neve e gelo e tramontana!"<br> "Viene, viene la Befana"<br> The English translation is: "Here comes, here comes the Befana"<br> "She comes from the mountains in the deep of the night"<br> "Look how tired she is! All wrapped up"<br> "In snow and frost and the north wind!" <br> "Here comes, here comes the Befana!"<br> Befana In Italian folklore, Befana () is an old woman who delivers gifts to children throughout Italy on Epiphany Eve (the night of January 5) in a similar way to St
Christmas in the Basque Country what the people of the mountain wear and the holiday used to celebrate the peasants who sold their goods in town and came on Santo Tomas to pay rent to landlords in the city. In the Basque Country the equivalent of Santa is Olentzero, and Olentzero lives or lived (depending on what you believe) in the mountains, and he wears the boys' casera. He is a mythical Basque character who is widely portrayed as a messenger who cries out that it is Christmas time throughout all the corners of the Basque Country. In some versions, the Olentzero is a farmer