Studio design: drawn with AI image tools to the iconography of Folk & Fairy, checked against that tradition's rules and approved by a person. Captions are set in real type, never generated. Made to order in the USA.
“Sweep the old year out.” La Befana, Italy's Famous Nonnina.
In Italian folklore, La Befana is a patched, soot-smudged old woman who sweeps the old year out the door. Stories say the Magi once stopped at her house and invited her along to find the Christ Child; she was too busy, then changed her mind and has searched ever since. On the night of 5 January she flies by broom, slips down chimneys and fills hung stockings with sweets, or sugar 'coal' for the mischievous, before the Christmas season ends.
Printed on a heavyweight Comfort Colors garment-dyed sweatshirt, soft and lived-in.
From The Deity Project, a living encyclopedia of the sacred.
