La Befana is an Italian Christmas figure, both feared and loved. This ancient witch brings toys to kind children, coal or garlic to bad children, and sweeps away the problems of last year: but if you get on her bad side, ashes will be the least of your worries #LegendaryWednesday - ThreadSky

godysseypodcast.bsky.social • 88 days ago

La Befana is an Italian Christmas figure, both feared and loved. This ancient witch brings toys to kind children, coal or garlic to bad children, and sweeps away the problems of last year: but if you get on her bad side, ashes will be the least of your worries #LegendaryWednesday

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pixelbismuth.ca•88 days ago

damn, i could've gotten garlic?

godysseypodcast.bsky.social•88 days ago

Right??

charleskowalski.bsky.social•88 days ago

How bad do I have to be to get her to bring me some garlic?

godysseypodcast.bsky.social•88 days ago

Don't clean your room is a good start

rowanmcglaughlin.bsky.social•88 days ago

How is garlic a bad thing? I love the stuff!

godysseypodcast.bsky.social•88 days ago

To a kid I guess it would be super disappointing when everyone else is getting fruit or candy

rowanmcglaughlin.bsky.social•88 days ago

Lol. As a kid, I believed Dracula & vampires were real and that they could be kept at bay with garlic, either by keeping it around or by eating it and "polluting" the blood for them. I couldn't keep it around, so I ate it whenever I could. I don't believe vampires are real, but I still eat garlic.

rowanmcglaughlin.bsky.social•88 days ago

So I would have been the weird kid who would have liked getting garlic! Lol.

godysseypodcast.bsky.social•88 days ago

After I got into garlic, I would have been all for it, but for those first seven years.... I get it.

writzoner.bsky.social•88 days ago

the toys, garlic, coal or ashes was always a "rating" system.
being half italian, I know all about this...but I also know that this along with every other religious iconography is just to keep people "in line". (except on a kid construct)

jpitmanauthor.bsky.social•87 days ago

La Befana has not always been a children’s character. The Romans believed that, on the 12th night after Natali Sol Invictus, a woman flew over the fields to give fertility for the future harvest. For some, she was the deity called Satia or Abundia but for others she was Diana, Goddess of the Moon.

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