ž1. in the week
before Christmas children go from house
to house dressed as shepherds, playing pipes, singing and reciting Christmas poems and are given money to buy presents.
ž2 .presents and
boxes are drawn from the urn of fate
lucky dip which always contains 1 gift per person by twilight
candles are lighted around the family crib known as presepio, prayers are said and children read poems.
ž3. people believed
that the 1st church bell ever used in a Christian service was Italian.