To search the press groups, associations, sponsor, businessmen for the site” News-art-culture.com”. Mysterious…enchanting…capricious….beautiful… ugly….old…. witch…..termagant.. how desire you? Always there are two windows, all depend of your look. From the Christmas holy to arrive to Epifania where to meet a female personage” Befana” looked as o witch in fly on a riding broom. Befana derives from Greek “ Epifania” which coincide with the party of Saint John Baptist( orthodox), o Christian holy when Gésu is been baptized of him in the Geordan’ s waters. In same time orthodoxy people have saint water for get well of disease and for chasing evil spirits. Come back to our think Befana represented by o old woman with few teeth, black shawl, wide soot bringing in back a bag full in sweets and caramels for good children and coal and garlic for those bad, remember us of holy of winter solstice.  Someone want her for to stay near them, for to feel magic, for to have sweet and love life, instead another to scared, smile by ugliness and old age her but they believe in luck , that to will possible to have with she. Her tale begins with the years X-VI a. C. bound of seasons agriculture circles presents in northern, central and meridional Italy until that Celtic , northern entered with boreal winter. From antic romans to present in pagan rites arriving with winter solstice and in Nord Europe where is present in landscape Celtic as  Perchta figure assimilable to Frigg in Scandinavia, Holda in Nord Europe , Bertha in Great Britain , Berchta in Austria, Swiss, France and Nord Italy. In all remains a female figure loved for to enter in families’ jesting and smiles.