The caganer – literally ‘defecator’ – is a staple of Christmas in Catalonia in north-east Spain. The traditional figure depicts a peasant wearing black trousers, a white shirt and the clas ...

Neil Steinberg/Sun-Times Share Christmas is Sunday ... having read George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia.” That’s about it. My wife stepped up, as she always does, and picked what we ...

consider the practice in Catalonia, in Spain, of beating a log until it "defecates" out presents and sweets. Atlas Obscura writes: According to Catalan mythology, the Christmas Log brings small ...

Kids growing up in Catalonia, on the other hand, have not one but two different poop-themed traditions to look forward to every Christmas: the Caganer and the Tió de Nadal. The Caganer is an ...

On the day of Christmas, after a month of caring for and feeding the Tió de Nadal, the children of Catalonia place the log partly into a fire and then proceed to beat the log with sticks in order ...

But Tió is implored to poop turrón, specifically, because it's the traditional Christmas sweet – not just in Catalonia, but across all of Spain. As candy legend has it, turrón was brought to ...

MADRID — King Felipe VI used his traditional Christmas Eve address Sunday night to call on Catalonia's newly elected parliament to renounce further moves toward secession from Spain.