Traditional Christmas in Catalonia.

Here in Catalonia we don't have Santa Claus, at least since until a few years ago. Who is in charge to distributes all the presents? It is "Caga Tió". That's a wood'stree trunk which has a red hat and painted face, a Catalan tradition.  a catalan traditional red hat and a face painted.
A 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 wherever 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 sees 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 on 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 cobvering it, and the children starts to laugh and jump!

Traditional Christmas in Catalonia.

Here in Catalonia we don't have Santa Claus, at least since a few years ago. Caga Tió is in charge of distributing all the presents.  Caga Tió is a tree trunk that has a painted face and wears a traditional Catalan red hat.
A few days before Christmas Day, the kids go to the forest in order to find their Caga tió. It appears suddenly in the middle of the forest (or where the parents have left it before).  After finding it, the children take it home and start to feed it.  They actually feed it every day (It only eats at night when nobody can see it)... hehe.   The children leave the food for Caga Tió at night and the next day the food isn't there, so the children think that it is Caga Tió who eats it.
Then, on 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 covering it, and the children starts to laugh and jump!

*  Aunque el verbo "shit" es correcto, es una palabra grosera.  En lugar de ese verbo, podri'a usar "excrete" o "defecate".