Bobo Barfi (Companions of Christmas)
$10.00
One of the SchweizerCraft "Companions of Christmas" series (#XmasF 20)
Bobo Barfi was gathering firewood to warm his home in the mountains of Tajikistan, when he stumbled across Ded Moroz, who had become trapped in a deadfall of old trees downed in a winter storm. Bobo helped to free the old wizard, and they became fast friends. He listened when Ded Moroz told of wintertime giftgiving, and determined that he would adopt the practice himself, and for many years gave children presents on New Year’s Eve.
Though Tajik, Bobo is often mistaken for Ded Moroz himself, who is presently unwelcome in Tajikistan, which officially celebrates neither Christmas and its cultural trappings nor Russian influences, having become independent of a century and a half of Russian rule only a generation ago.
So if he finds himself unable to deliver presents on New Year’s, he’ll do so in secret at the Feast of Sada, presenting children with bundles of firewood to throw on the celebratory bonfire (after they remove the presents that he has hidden for them inside the bundles).
1/4” Baltic Birch, roughly 3.65” tall
This figure can be purchased individually here, or with the 25-figure Advent Collection.
Figure comes with a 2.75 x 8.5” card telling his story. The card fits in the story shelf on the Santa’s Workshop DisPlayset.
