Christmas traditions
Christmas lights
Nutcrackers
Title Text
Fruit Cake Toss
SANTACON
A few traditions you may be less familiar with...
KFC, Japan
If you don't order your bucket of chicken in November, you just might be out of luck
Nikolaustag, Germany
Nice kids get candy and gifts,
naughty kids get twigs.
Mythological Creeps
(Witches and stuff)
Yule lads, Iceland
Krampus, Austria
La Befana, Italy
La Quema del Diablo, Guatemala
Burn your trash to get the devil out
Tió de Nadal, Catalonia
Origins
- symbol of protection
- struck with a stick to produce warmth and lingh when burned
- the smoke it produced was said to connect with dead family members
Now
- Kids feed the log
- The log grows
- On Christmas, they hit the log and tell it to defecate
- Presents!
The Caga Tío song
Caga tió,
Tió de Nadal,
No caguis arengades
Que són massa salads
Caga torrons
Que són més bons!
Poop log,
Log of Christmas,
Don't poop salted herring
They are too salty
Poop turróns
They are much better!
There's... another Catalan Christmas poop tradition?
El Caganer
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By Kelly Mason
