Including a caganer in a nativity scene, he says, is one way Christians can remind themselves of the full humanity of Jesus. Tilley thinks there’s another reason to include one in a crèche.

"The caganer is never in the front of the nativity scene. That would be a lack of respect. He's always hidden in a corner, under a bridge or behind a tree and every morning the children play a ...

For some people, the pooping figure symbolizes fertility and some legends in rural communities hold that a Nativity scene without a Caganer would lead to a bad growing season, Sarah Rainsford ...

There’s even a caganer scandal, as 2005 was the first year that the Barcelona city nativity scene didn’t include a little guy, banned in keeping with a recent, very un-Catalan tradition of ...

“In these four years Trump has been an excellent caganer, I mean excellent in terms of sales,” said caganer artisan Marc Alos, 49, from his workshop in the small Mediterranean town of T… ...

“There was a legend that if a countryside man did not put a caganer in the nativity scene, he would have a very bad year collecting vegetables,” Joan Lliteras, a “caganer connoisseur” and ...

The 'caganer' (literally 'defecator') is a feature of Catalan nativity scenes. The figure is usually tucked away in a corner of the model, far away from the manger itself, for children to find.

Plentiful poop meant plentiful crops — and pretty soon the act became a good-luck charm in statue form. "There was a legend that if a countryside man did not put a caganer in the Nativity scene ...

“The caganer is never in the front of the Nativity scene. That would be a lack of respect. He's always hidden in a corner, under a bridge or behind a tree, and every morning the children play a ...

In 2005 the Barcelona city council commissioned a nativity scene sans a caganer, and unleashed a wave of protest. The flustered city fathers countered the protesters by pointing out that recently ...

Everyone is familiar with the principle actors in the manger Nativity scene. There’s Mary, looking rather well-rested after squeezing an object the size of a football out of her unpenetrated ...