Traditional Christmas in Catalonia. Here in Catalonia we don't have Santa Claus, at least since few years ago. Who is in charge to distributes all the presents is "Caga Tió". That's a wood's trunk which have a catalan traditional red hat and a face painted. Few days before Christmas Day, the kids go to the forest in order to find they the Caga tió. It appears suddenly in the middle of the forest (or where the parents can leave it before) and children take it to home and start to feed it every day (It only eats at night when nobody see it, hehe, the children leave the food and the day after the food isn't there, so the children think that's caga tió who eats it). Then, in Christmas Day the kids sing it a song while they are hitting it with a stick. Suddenly Caga Tió starts to shit a lot of presents under the blanket that's cobering it, and the children starts to laugh and jump!

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