Show naoaki nao aoi SANTA FOR ITALIAN KIDDIES good fairy ie it supposed to fill stockings Stoc kino with toys on twelfth night ill charlite cha pi i leallan childhood lore correspond ing to our sinta clans la Is behina betana a good fairy who Is t supposed gup posed to fill the chit drens stoc kInis alth tuis on twelfth night she does nt however conie come down the chimney and the stockings are hung bung in the ch cli id III s bedroom NN hen lien someone enter enters to fill the stocking the child according to a it very ancient practice cries out ecco la the legend concerning this lady laly is 1 that the alegi while on way var to bethlehem stopped at her fiume but found her too busy with at sf fatra fairs to ebe maln them she told thin that hat ebe she would eee see them or their return but they went back by another route and therefore ther etore bedana eimes out in search vt of them every twel th night her ifer name Is 1 a corruption of epiphany which la Is jan 6 0 the twelfth after christmas according ne to the church calendar |