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Dia de los Reyes Magos
The Feast of the Three Kings, the Magi whose name gives magic its word, when children in Spain and Latin America receive their gifts.
About Dia de los Reyes Magos
On 6 January Spanish and Latin American children receive gifts from the Three Kings, Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar, rather than on Christmas Day. The kings are the Magi of the Gospel of Matthew, wise men or astrologers from the East who followed a star. The word magus itself comes from an Old Persian word for a priest and is the origin of the English word magic. Children leave out shoes, grass and water for the kings' camels, and the rosca de reyes, a ring-shaped cake with a hidden figure, is shared. In Puerto Rico and some other places the day is also a time for house blessings with chalk written over the door.
Also part of it, and being written: Epiphany (The Christian feast of the Magi.), Three Kings' Day (The custom in the Hispanic world.).
Written by the EveryJaadu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Epiphany (holiday)" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family, and are described as belief and practice. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.