Dana Terrace traces the origin of her Disney cartoon to a simple logline: “A girl becomes a witch and learns under this old woman mentor.” Terrace cultivated that short sentence into a ...

Italian folklore tells of La Befana, an old witch-like woman who brings gifts to children on Jan. 5, Epiphany Eve. She arrived early this year, on the mid-morning of Dec. 14, at the San Mango d ...