Crossword-Solution: BEFANA
We have 9 clues for the answer “BEFANA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| EPIPHANY rag doll | 1 answer |
| EPIPHANY victim | 1 answer |
| ITALIAN Epiphany rag doll | 1 answer |
| ITALIAN Epiphany victim | 1 answer |
| ITALIAN Twelfth Night bringer of gifts | 1 answer |
| ITALIAN bringer of gifts (legend.) | 1 answer |
| ITALIAN hag (legend.) | 1 answer |
| Italian gift-bearing good fairy | 1 answer |
| ITALIAN bugbear | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BEFANA (5)
According to some of the Scotch stories, the witch, after bestriding her broomsticks must repeat the magic formula, _Horse and Hattork!_ The flitting of these ill-omened night-birds, like nearly all the general superstitions relating to witchcraft, mingles itself and is lost in a throng of figures more august.[110] Diana, Bertha, Holda, Abundia, Befana, once beautiful and divine, the bringers of blessing while men slept, became demons haunting the drear of darkness with terror and ominous suggestion.
The maiden is one of those beings who, like the Italian Befana, have taken their names from the festival at which they appear.{12} * * * * * No time in all the Twelve Nights and Days is so charged with the supernatural as Christmas Eve.
She is generally dressed in a hide, wears a hideous wooden mask, and hops wildly about, inquiring as to the behaviour of children, and demanding gifts.{22} |343| Something of the terrible, as well as the beneficent, belongs to the "Befana," the Epiphany visitor who to Italian children is the great gift-bringer of the year, the Santa Klaus of the South.
Though she puts playthings and sweets in the stockings of good children, she has nothing but a birch and coal for those who misbehave themselves.{24} Formerly at Florence images of the Befana were put up in the windows of houses, and there were processions through the streets, guys being borne about, with a great blowing of trumpets.{25} Toy trumpets are still the delight of little boys at the Epiphany in Italy.
And I remember on _Befana_ Night we adjourned to the _Piazza Navona_ to blow horns and reed whistles into other people's ears and to have them blown into ours.
Quotes with BEFANA (2)
I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won’t. . . . I very much love those mysterious volumes, both ancient and modern, that have no definite author but have had and continue to have an intense life of their own. They seem to me a sort of nighttime miracle, like the gifts of the Befana, which I waited for as a child. . . . True miracles are the ones whose m…
I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won’t. . . . I very much love those mysterious volumes, both ancient and modern, that have no definite author but have had and continue to have an intense life of their own. They seem to me a sort of nighttime miracle, like the gifts of the Befana, which I waited for as a child. . . . True miracles are the ones whose makers will never be known. . . .