Tió de Nadal

 The most famous holiday in America is Christmas, children get out of school for a few weeks and wait for santa to arrive on christmas eve and place there presents underneith the tree. Thats our custom in the united states! The craziest thing I've heard of is a pooping log instead of santa clause!
This holiday is known as Tio de Nadal .It is very popular in spain. Instead of santa and his elves theres this log, yeah a log! and his name is tio. On Christmas day or Christmas eve depending on the household the family puts Tio in the fire place and orders it to poo, and to make him poo you have to beat him with a stick and sing! Once the beating and the song is over somebody puts their hand under the blanket and takes the gift. The gift is opened and then the song begins again.

Here is a song of the “caga tío”:
Caga tío, (poo, log!)
caga turró, (poo torrons,)
avellanes i mató,( hazelnuts and cheese,)
si no cagues bé (if you don’t poo well)
et daré un cop de bastó (I’ll give you a blow with a stick.)
¡caga tió! (poo, log!)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%B3_de_Nadal