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, Sweeper of the Old Year.
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.
