La Befana

Earlier this year, we learned that the legend of Santa Claus could have originated from Lapland shamans, taking mind-expanding mushrooms, dressing in red & white and travelling by reindeer-led sleighs. In Italy, there's another Santaclausian figure, a witch called La Befana. She gives presents to the good kids around January 5, and stuff coal in the stockings of the bad children. Read the extensive Wiki about her.

In popular culture, La Befana pops up in Italian folksongs like this one, but also in REALLY GREAT pop tunes by an Australian singer. Taylah Carroll (great last name) writes about her song: 'Inspired in part by Italy’s Le Befana, ‘maybe santa is a witch’ is my feminist Christmas carol. It explores an alternate reality in which we continued to honour a forgotten, but rich, Pagan history of Christmas Witches.'
Make Like Monkeys also made a La Befana song:
And this Italian singer-songwrites imagines what happens when Santa Claus (Babbo Natale) and La Befana get together: