Italian children leave their shoes out the night before Epiphany, January 5, for La Befana the good witch.

意大利的孩子们会在主显节的前一天，1月5日晚上把鞋子留在外面给好巫婆La Befana穿。

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They seem to me a sort of nighttime miracle, like the gifts of the Befana, which I waited for as a child.

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