Pooping log
In the spirit of the season , I have choosen to do another top ten. We all have werid Christmas traditions in our homes but let see these top ten.
1) Christmas log
The bizarre Catalonian tradition of caga tió (or “defecating log” in English) involves creating a character out of a small log – often complete with a grinning face and hat – which sits on the dining room table during the fortnight leading up to Christmas. It has to be fed every day with fruit, nuts and sweets, and then – on Christmas Eve – the entire family beats the log with sticks, while singing traditional songs, forcing the log to excrete its treats. Christmas pudding anyone?
2) Halloween or Christmas
Instead of glittering ornaments and tinsel, Ukrainian Christmas trees are covered with an artificial spiders and cobwebs. But Dude it Christmas not Halloween . Legend as it, there was a poor woman who could not afford to decorate their Christmas tree. But the next morning, her children woke up to see the tree covered with webs and when the first light of Christmas morning touched the web threads, they turned into gold and silver and the family was never left for wanting again.
3) Indians have gone bananas
Due to its topical enviroment instead of Christmas pine trees lining up celebrating households, you’ll find brightly lit, well-decorated Christmas banana or mango trees on the streets. They even use the leaves of those trees to decorate their houses.
4) Kentucky Fried Christmas
While most western families feast on homecooked Turkey and brusselsprouts. In Japan most families opt for a bucket KF Chicken (Hooray for Japanese mums).. More than 240,000 barrels of chicken will be sold during Christmas, five to ten times its normal monthly sales.
5) How Mary found Joseph ?
On Christmas Eve, unmarried Czech women practice a traditional fortune telling method to predict their relationship status for the upcoming year. If you’d like to give this a try, here’s how to do it: Stand with your back to your door and toss one of your shoes over your shoulder. If it lands with the toe facing the door it means that you will get married within the year. If it lands with the heel facing the door, you’re in for another year of unmarried status.
6) Acting the goat?
In 1966 a 13-metre tall goat figure made of straw was erected in the town square of Gavle. At the stroke of midnight, Christmas Eve, the goat went up in flames. Since then it was tradition to burn the goat.
7) Santa Claus vs Sinterklass
In the Netherlands Sinterklaas wears a bishop’s tall hat, red cape, shiny ring, and jeweled staff, rides through town knocking on doors late at night. He would be accompanied by his long-time helpers Black Pete,
8) The Krampus
Krampus is Sinterklass evil twin whose job is to beat and punish all the children who have misbehaved. On December 5th men dress up in some of the scariest devil-like costumes you can imagine and drunkenly run around towns hitting people with sticks and switches. The Krampus legend originates in the Germanic alpine regions
A wild looking half-man, half-beast character — rattled chains and threatened to steal away the naughtiest children in his big black bag. And for those “less bad” he had switches for exacting lesser punishments! And for the good children — Sinterklaas and the Krampus would deliver a bag of goodies.
9) Latin countries being cheeky
Along with Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, a Caganer, or “Shitter” in English, is placed in the scene. The Caganer is a figurine, traditionally of a man, in the act of defecating, pants around his knees bending over with pile of feces at his heels. He is usually placed in a corner, perhaps because he needs privacy.
10) Santa’s Own Postal Code
H0H 0H0 (with zeros instead of the letter ‘o’) and it’s in Canada where postal codes are alphanumeric.But for the past 30 years, Canada Post volunteers (in the thousands) had been helping Santa reply to a million letters (every year!) from children around the world in different languages, including Braille.
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