Note: Discussed in this part: The Italian folk calendar largely conforms to pre-Christian feast day pattern. Sound and fury of real folk calendar. New Year's Day in Capri. Brass band. Rite of wishing good fortune in exchange for present of food is pagan. New Year rite in Ferrara. Bagpipers on Epiphany ("Tu Scendi dalle stelle"). The Befana. Carolers from Luca, in Tuscany. Decline of Carnival. Blight of German municipal band. Old Carnival song from Lucania with phallic 'cupa cupa' (friction drum). 'La Zdeza' theatrical company of artisans of Avellino (near Naples) -- a survival of the old Commedia dell'Arte -- perform at Carnival, with brass band.