ceppo

Tuscany, Christmas is simply called ceppo (block, log -- Bonaccorsi, op. cit., p. 145, n.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

In northern Italy also the _ceppo_ or log is (or was) known -- the

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

[Footnote: Above the first sketch we find, in the original, this note: "_Sopra il pote rubaconte alla torricella_"; and by the second, which represents a pier of a bridge, "_Sotto l'ospedal del ceppo.

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[Footnote: Above the first sketch we find, in the original, this note: "_Sopra il pote rubaconte alla torricella_"; and by the second, which represents a pier of a bridge, "_Sotto l'ospedal del ceppo.

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