Have a coprophilic Catalan Christmas

[eridani]

This is some WEIRD shit (pun intended)!

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I'm writing to report to you about a couple of Catalan Christmas artifacts you may not know about. First I will describe the caganer - a wholesome and fun Catalan addition to the typical Christmas creche figurine family. The traditional caganer is an old Catalan man with a red hat and canvas shoes squatting and taking a dump in the manger. Over time, the theme has expanded to include sumo wrestlers, Santa, the Devil, the Pope, Dali, and soccer fans, just to name a few. There's a good site describing them, and selling about 60 different varieties: www.caganer.com Here's a link to their shop.

In Barcelona there's a temporary market of stalls in the Placa Nova which sell the caganers and a host of other Christmas paraphernalia, including the next member of the Catalan Christmas family: caga tio. Caga tio comes in many sizes, but generally looks just like our new friend, sans the pipe. Customs surrounding caga tio differ, but all agree, caga tio means "shit log." Here I relay to you what I think is the full blown caga tio ritual.