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Strange Christmas Traditions from Around the World
TLDR From beating a log until it poops presents in Catalonia to eating KFC in Japan, this article explores some of the world's most unusual Christmas traditions, including roller skating to church in Caracas and hiding brooms in Norway to prevent witches from flying on them.
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Learn about the world's strangest Christmas traditions, including the Catalonian tradition of beating a log until it poops presents and the inclusion of a Cogunner in every nativity scene in Catalonia.
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In Catalonia, it is a tradition to include a figure in the nativity scene that depicts someone defecating, and in Japan, it has become popular to eat at KFC on Christmas.
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In Japan, it has become popular to eat KFC on Christmas Eve, with the average KFC restaurant doing 10 times the business on that day compared to a normal day.
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In Sweden, a Christmas TV program called "From All of Us to All of You" has been aired every year since 1959 and is watched by up to 50% of the country's population.
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In Caracas, Venezuela, people roller skate to church on Christmas, and in Norway, it is tradition to hide all the brooms in the house on Christmas Eve to prevent witches from flying on them.
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In Victorian England, people played a parlor game called Snapdragon where they would try to pick burning raisins out of a bowl of brandy or rum and eat them.
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Since 1966, the town of Gävle in Sweden has built a giant goat every year for Christmas, but almost every year someone tries to burn it down, and despite increased security measures, the goat was successfully burned down in 2021.
