Tió de Nadal: another Catalan festive scatological tradition

December 18, 2013 Leave your thoughts

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Christmas in Catalonia, including the tradition of placing a defecating figure in the crib, the caganer. Weird, I know.

Tió de Nadal

However, that is not the only scatological Christmas tradition in Catalonia, the other of which is the Tió de Nadal, the Catalan Christmas log.

These days the log often has legs and smiling face wearing a barretina (the Catalan hat), and on either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, depending on the household, the children beat the tió with sticks to make it defecate presents, which tend to be nougat, sweets and suchlike, which are shared.

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