Welcome to our first annual ViralNova Presents: 25 Days Of Creepy Christmas special section! Every day, from December 1st to December 25th, we’re posting a new Christmas themed article guaranteed to get you in the creepy holiday spirit.
In this series, we’ve already seen some creepy Christmas traditions from other countries (though it’s not like our traditions are any less weird). This particular tradition sounds like a South Park joke. In Catalonia, an autonomous community within Spain, there is a tradition of the Tió de Nadal, which roughly translates to “pooping log.” It’s a log that poops, you see, and it is a very sacred tradition of the Catalonian people.
Meet Tió.
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Beating and Defecation.
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The Ritual.
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Gifts.
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There’s even a song that goes with the Tió de Nadal to be joyfully sung in between beating the log and telling it to poop for you. It is as follows:
Caga tió,
Tió de Nadal,
No caguis arengades,
Que són massa salades
Caga torrons
Que són més bons!”
This roughly translates to:
Poop log,
Log of Christmas,
Don’t poop herrings,
They are too salty,
Poop nougats (turrón)
They are much better!
How festive! You know Tió is actually pretty cute when you get used to him. Though I do wonder: if this is their Christmas tradition, what is Lent like?
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