Popular legend has it that during the night between 12 and 13 December, Saint Lucia goes to all the houses, with a donkey, to distribute to the children good gifts.
To receive them, the children have to prepare the straw to feed the donkey and place it under the chimney, from which the Santa falls.
Then they have to go straight to bed, close your eyes, because Santa does not want to see and fall asleep humming nursery rhymes. In Brescia, the song is dedicated to the saint:
Santa Lucia beautiful of the children are the star,
through the world go and go and do not you ever get tired;
find the door of my little house,
then continues the way for all the country,
Then continue your trip for my whole village.
To all the good children Tu sweet and brings gifts,
To receive them, the children have to prepare the straw to feed the donkey and place it under the chimney, from which the Santa falls.
Then they have to go straight to bed, close your eyes, because Santa does not want to see and fall asleep humming nursery rhymes. In Brescia, the song is dedicated to the saint:
Santa Lucia beautiful of the children are the star,
through the world go and go and do not you ever get tired;
find the door of my little house,
then continues the way for all the country,
Then continue your trip for my whole village.
To all the good children Tu sweet and brings gifts,
but the most beautiful gifts portals to the poor.
To disobedient children, that Saint Lucia is still awake to try to see her, throw the ashes into his eyes and moves on without leaving any gift. To try to tempt the donkey and entice Santa to leave them even more gifts, some children hang on the windows of bunches of carrots. Others, however, put on the windowsill a closed wooden base on the front with a little inside 'bran for the donkey, and a glass of water-filled timber for Lucia. Next to everything a candle also settle on to illuminate the window and indicate the presence of children.
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