Befana other presents. In the book "Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs, Discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily" (1823), John J. Blunt says: The tradition of Befana appears to incorporate other pre-Christian popular elements as well, adapted to Christian culture and related to the celebration of the New Year. Historian Carlo Ginzburg relates her to Nicevenn. The old lady character should then represent the "old year" just passed, ready to be burned in order to give place to the new one. In many European countries the tradition still exists of burning a puppet of an old lady at the beginning of
Doctor Who: Children in Need a crash landing on Christmas Eve... The mini-episode was not broadcast with a title, but throughout the Children in Need appeal a preview banner for the segment called it "The New Doctor". Russell T Davies joked in a "Doctor Who Magazine" article that it was called "Pudsey Cutaway"—after the Children in Need teddy-bear mascot and modifying "Dalek Cutaway", an alternative title for "Mission to the Unknown" (something of a one-off special itself, from the programme's earliest black-and-white era). The 2006 "Doctor Who Magazine" special "Series Two Companion" revealed that the title used on production papers was "Doctor Who: Children in