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?