Neo Rysio Primary School- Sense of Touch

Mrs. “Befana” has come to school.

During the night between 5th and 6th January in Italy Befana enters the houses of children to put sweets and little toys into the stockings they have hang up at the foot of their beds in the evening. If they were a little bit naughty they receive  lumps of coal.
The tradition says that Befana looks like an old awful woman wearing old ragged cloths and riding a flying broom.

It’s a pagan tradition wich falls on the same date the three Wise Men , according the catholic tradition , bring gifts to the Holy Infant.

Yesterday Befana visited also the school of Sermoneta Scalo to give children stockings full of sweets and chocolates: nobody was naughty!