Caga Tió de Nadal - A Poopy Christmas Tradition - Catalonia - Extra Mythology
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We've been teasing it for a while so let's take a break from the spooky Krampuses & Yule Lads of the season and instead talk about some real shit. And yes, we actually swear in one of our videos. But it's all within the context of some good holiday fun! Because how else can you describe a happy little log that poops out delicious presents like turron for good children, under threat of being beaten with a stick? Happy holidays!
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Don't forget. St. Nicholas punched a heretic at the Council of Nicaea. Santa can throw hands if you're naughty enough
If you are heretical enough.
Some nasty pranks? Maybe a smaller gift than normal.
Believing that Jesus Christ was all a spirit and his body naught but an Illusion? Santa is going to show you why his garb be red.
_Ouch._
St. Nick never punch the founder of Adrianism.
@@woaddragon No, he punched a Docetist
Also he spawns cheese every 10 sec. XD
You nailed the song!!! Catalan is not easy to pronounce ;) And yes, we catalans are very scatological
people. Apparently all the pooping in the nativity symbolizes the rich meals we have for Christmas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks for sharing our super weird traditions! Molt bon episodi, gràcies!
Also, if a bunch of people suddenly show up in town for a census and clog the local inn, you’d better bet someone’s gonna poop in the streets.
its more about the fertilization of the land
@@armorsmith43
Pre-plumming, everyone did that!
Jo se parlar en català
(I can speak in catalan)
@@armorsmith43 I’d be worried if someone DIDNT poop in the streets
In Cajun Louisiana we have Papa Noel, who travels Arcadia (and New Orleans), on a boat pulled by alligators. He lives in the swamps and if I remember correctly the toys he gives are made by raccoons. He gives presents to all the good little Cajun children. Also there’s even an albino gator as a Rudolph stand in
You just made my new favorite Yuletide tradition! How do you appease this strange Santa of Cajun Christmas?
Papa Noel is also the name of Santa in Arabic
@@mohammadaladham7721 cool!
Florida Santa Claus?
@@S3rp3nte An equally valid name.
"Tio de nadel only brings the small presents"
"Oh thank God." -Tio de nadel
Chio de naral*
Unless he has some Taco Bell...
@@Heulerado tio de nadal
@@Heulerado Tió de Nadal
Sou més curts que una escala de collir patates
“Myths are not stories that are untrue” now let’s talk about the log that poops candy.
It’s not NOT untrue, though.
...serve as a foundation to a culture.
IKR!!!
They never said it it was false!
Imagine being Catalan and coming to an area where Christmas is celebrated and keeping the tradition and so while the rest of the kids open presents; they hear that one house screaming ‘S**T LOG’
Caga tió is actually celebrated as part of Christmas, and the biggest feast of the winter holidays happens on Christmas.
As a kid we used to do the “caga tió” at class, so it’s actually quite widespread this tradition
"where Christmas is celebrated" Dude they put up nativity scenes and get gifts from the three kings, I'm pretty sure their Christmas celebration is more Christian than the American style celebration.
@@helenanilsson5666 Yea, but not that much. In the end is another reason for festivities and be merry (not that we lack them, or we need reasons at all). Fun fact: because of the Three Wise Kings' visit on the January 6th, Christmas lasts a week more here.
CAGA TRONCO
"...Climbs down your chimney... even if you don't have one." That gave me a good lol
The Santa Clause answered this
A poop centric episode lends this sentence a very different and disturbingly hilarious meaning.
uh oh
He's basically Odin. Do you really think Odin need a chimney to get into your house?
Santa just breaks into your house every year. Makes perfect sense
"that's why he's known as caga tio, shi--" *ad begins*
They just want you to spend money on Premium.
Why is this so funny
SAME
@@TopsideCrisis346 RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
Ikr XD! 😂🤔
Iceland: we have creepy elfs
Germany: we have fucking demons
Catalonia: we have a log that shits presents
Netherlands we have a moor who helps, but he isn’t welcome anymore
@@gullepomp
🤷♂️
The true meanig of chrismas is shiting present
Iceland: We have a bunch of hobbits do weird things in your house
@@gullepompA mythical moor right? RIGHT?
FINALLY ITS HERE, AFTER ALL THIS TEASING IN OTHER CHRISTMAS VIDEOS, WE FINALLY GET TO SEE THE SHITTING LOG
Visca el cagatió!
@@herman1francistotalment d'acord!! Però posant-me una mica pedant, no seria tió "a secas"?
@@pizzaipinya2442 les dues són correctes diria
@@herman1francis a mi sempre m'havien dit que Caga Tió era el nom de la cançó i Tió el tronc, pero ves a saber jajajaja
@@pizzaipinya2442 pot ser que tinguis raó, no n'estic segur
This truely is a christmas shitpost
Howdy-ho...
lol
God dam
caca tió go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Bruh..
I'm Catalan and find mostly everything in the video really respectful and well researched... Good job guys!
As a catalan, thanks for showing one of our weirdest and funny parts of our culture! I remember every christmas at school doing this and was one of the best parts of christmas for us. Also, your pronunciation was not the best, but not worst I've ever heard. Thanks Extra Credits team!
S enten el que diu
Ya ves, el caga tio y el caganer son muy buenas sobre todo por ese aire humorístico que tienen jaja. Por cierto yo soy de cerca de barcelona y tu?
@@criswtf2864 de Mallorca, pero en Mallorca no tenemos troncos cagaderos.
I was able to move from the U.S. to Barcelona for a year abroad, and was introduced to this strange tradition for the winter I was there. We shared the holiday with a family from Argentina where their little daughter found just as much humor as we did. A delightful tradition I'm so happy you covered here!
Now I can die having heard someone from the US singing in catalan
I think Matt is either Polish or of Polish descent
Baby-eating demons and skeleton deers: I sleep
A log wearing a hat: Real sh*t
Literally
Am I the only one who heard " and thus we come to the end of another excrement mythology" or are all the poop stories just getting to me
Excrement-ology
That was almost certainly intended...
As a Valencian, the closest cousins of the Catalonian, this is hilarious
Es increible
Els catalans son un poc especialets
Bon Nadal, veïns.
@@Martin-wu4ee Com a català, ho confirmo
@@Martin-wu4ee ho som🤣
Everybody gangsta till you grab the logs balls by mistake when reaching for a present
HAHAHAHAHHA
the log's log
Oh no
Someone been playing with his log a little too much, amirite? 😏
I can't believe I'm ending the year talking about a present-shitting log
And dont worry about the singing, you actually did a pretty good job!
So true-
that singing made me repeat the part over and over lol
Ah, Catalunya, you wonderful land of eschatological joy. I would have been very disappointed if you hadn't mentioned the caganer. There's also the thing where every year there's like, different caganers representing popular characters.
In Italy we have La Befana, she’s a friendly witch that delivers gifts much like how Santa does in the US. Well, in the north we have her, St. Nicholas and Krampus.
I've never heard of her, nice!
La befana viene di notte
Con le calze tutte rotte
Con le toppe alla sottana
--vaffanculo a sta bu--
Viva viva la befana
St. Nicholas, Krampus, and a friendly witch all in the same location trying to give presents and/or life lessons to kids each Christmas? I smell a sitcom!
In some regions of Italy there are also Santa Lucia and San Nicolò/Nicola (yeah, Saint Nicholas, but there's also Santa Claus) bringing presents before Christmas. Also in Venice there's the tradition to give small gifts to children the 8th of December to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas time.
I straight up thought you said “excrement-thology” at the end there. This poop stuff gets on the brain.
Catalan native speaker here, the entonation at some poitns was "c bad" but all in all you guys did a terrific job singing the "caga tió" (accent at the end of the word not in the I) outstanding job!
As a catalan, it's hilarious hearing you singing (and butchering) this kid song 😂
But don't worry about the pronunciation, we are usually very welcoming and encouraging with foreigners trying to speak catalan.
As we say, “I si t’equivoques torna a començar!” (And if you're wrong, just start over!)
Qui té boca s'equivoca
lo extrany es lo de resar... jo mullava els pals. apart del fet de que, "catalanament", molts no celebrem res la "nit de nadal". molts cagatios son per sant esteve... etc
@@giffica Cry me a river then
@@delarkaBCN lo de resar era lo raro
@@delarkaBCNcrec q ho de resar es feia abans quan tothom era més religiós... A casa meva sempre hem dit que el Tió necessita un lacasitos o algo just abans de cagar i que, com no menja si hi ha gent, havíem d'anar a una altra habitació a esperar que mengés el lacasito per poder fer-lo cagar xd
4:19 That was pretty acceptable Catalan, actually :D
5:50 The Three Wise Men bringing presents isn't specifically a Catalan thing, though; it's the same in all of Spain.
8:11 Caganer spotted! :DDD
As someone from Sevilla, can confirm
My Polish ex-boyfriend also had the Three Kings Day thing when he was a kid!
In Nicaragua, there's a tradition in the 7th of December called "La Griteria", in which people go around houses, singing Virgin Mary related songs, and receiving candy and toys in exchange...
@Henry Villone what?
@Henry Villone
🤨
@Sebastian Mostek
I mean Halloween isn't a Hispanic tradition, it's a christianized Celtic or Germanic tradition.
@Sebastian Mostek sorta... but without the Disguises...
@@thesymbiotenation.4552 That sounds a little like caroling in America, but for me, it's mostly just giving the carolers stuff so they go away.
I think the fact that some traditions survive due to their playful or unserious nature says something beautiful about humanity.
I’m catalan saw the thumbnail instantly clicked 😂
Me 2
x3
I'm catalan?.... wtf is that?
Valencian, saw both the caganer and the trunk thing whose name evades me*. Instant click.
*Caga Tiò
×4
Kids if the Tio Worked: TIO IF YOU DONT POOP A PS5 OR A XBOX SERIES X I WILL END YOU WITH THIS STICK!!!!!
Kinda what really happens with this tradition irl XD
Small presents. The console is for January. All the log will poop out is games.
@@henke37 Ok then. "Tió if you don't poop this year's Assassin's Creed, I'll beat the sh!t out of you. Literally".
The fact that you didn't call this episode Excrementology makes me question your writing.
I think that was out of fear of demonetization.
Perhaps they need to add you to their writing crew?
Oh I love that
J Rodriguez we
As a catalonian myself, you singed the song pretty well!
I made the mistake of watching this in front of my kids who still believed in Santa.
My kids believe in the log...
Oh dude that’s great
F
Tell em the truth, "a log poops your presents"
F
YES! They actually did the talking log like they said last year!!!
This is a beautiful tradition and also completely absured, and I love it. All Christmas traditions should be this fun, silly, weird, little crude and communaly fun.
Americans: oh why can't we have a second christmas.
Me: Laugh's in catalan.
This episode made me so happy! Our family celebrated Caga Tió every year when I was a child, although I didn't know about the herring thing. It's sad that the tradition is being replaced by Santa Claus.
Catalonia sounds so laid back if they let their kids swear on christmas, aww I wanna move their now
You are always welcome!
Consider visiting other parts of Spain as well!
@@mayorgeneralramirez1997 For the love of shitting, can't you let us have this??
@@Nangong123 Hey, it's not my fault 3/4 of the country runs on tourism. At least I have to try to make them consider other parts.
I only found this because I searched "Spanish Christmas Log" thinking that I would find that yule log burning on a loop with Spanish music playing - did not expect this at all 😂
Don't forget to beat your log, everyone.
No logs were hurt in the making of this
Me after hearing the song: Now I know what I’m going to do in class after break!!
Ah yes, the *true* story behind the Yule Log XD
And to all this Christmas, as the Catalonians say, "Eat well, ****** hard" :)
and dont fear death
This could be the funniest extra mythology episode ever!
Merry Christmas from Barcelona! This was amazing, but too add a little bit of spice, its actually shiting log, but its not a swearword. That would be merda tió
Yeah, in the Basque country, northern Spain, we have olentzero which is a shepper or a metarlugian worker who used to bring minerals home but legends say that ones he realizated that children prefer toys and at the 25 morning or 24 night comes down from the mountain and brings presents
That's a neat Basque tradition but dang minerals these days are surprisingly sought after. Pretty neat tho.
Olentzero brings coal to the kids who misbehave
Best thing about Olentzero, though, is how the songs portray him as a bit of a glutton and a heavy drinker :) They spend more time talking about what Olentzero is eating and drinking than about Jesus or any of that stuff
@@89Unai Completly agrree
Olentzero? El que le dice a los niños que no le escriban en castellano?
I'm so Happy that you shared this tradition of my homeland!
And your catalan isn't that bad 😅
Happy holidays and Bones Festes everyone!
bon nadal i bones festes
I found out about this tradition a few years ago. Seemed hilariously weird back then and it's still hilariously weird after watching this video. The Catalans are great, aren't they?
We are very proud of our traditions, thank you for your kind words, love from catalonia :)
Wow! This video is very accurate, indeed! Thank you for sharing our traditions with the world. Some decades ago the tió de Nadal was a practice reduced only to some mountain villages, but I think that giving him a face, a personality, bringing him to life, has helped very much the tradition, and now it's widespread throughout all Catalonia.
😆 thank you so much this whole years just been filled with so much tragedy and sorrow we can actually use something to brighten the holiday🙏
Commercialism has really robbed Christmas of the magic of beating magical creatures until the excrete presents.
I demand attention for Wales and our Skull Horse!
*+*
Amen!!! Though your "monster" is a damn scary one
I’m reminded of Mr Hanky, the Christmas Poo.
Catalan tradition yay
Oh you and your poop jokes.
Catalunya és la millor regió del món. :)
the way you pronounced that song is so hillarious, so good you tried!
(from a catalan)
Thank you for taking a shot at showing catalan heritage and culture. I'm not catalan myself, but i'm Happy they got a nice piece of representation.
Bth both turrón and nativities (belenes) are widespread along Spain. In fact my town makes a human size nativity every year.
True! Escudella and neules may be a more "catalan only" xmas food
@@EmDiuenAlbert-Albert tiÓ, not Tío, mha matat, pero no coneixen els accents aixi que...
Si el turrón es catalán, yo soy de la Antártida
@@carlospesqueraalonso4988 ya, bueno. Yo no voy a ser el abanderado que defienda al turrón valenciano, si quieres intentarlo, haya tú, pero por experiencia es muy difícil que la idea cuaje. Lo siento. Al final del día son guiris y muchas veces se equivocan.
@@alejandroojeda1572 Creo que has dado en el clavo. A mí me gusta el canal, pero veo muchos pequeños errores o imprecisiones de ese tipo cuando cuentas historias o mitos. No está mal, pero da la impresión que se olvidan de los detalles o que su investigación sobre lo que cuenta no es tan buena. Sigue estando aceptable pero...
I really enjoyed your performance of the song. We have schools that also do the caga tió, and all the kids of the class take turns singing and hitting the log. We used to sing an abbreviated song: "Caga tió, avellanes i turrons, si no cagues molt, et donarem un cop de bastó, caga tió!"
They have been speaking of the log for years! I'm so happy they finally released the video!
To anyone who reads this, happy yule and winter solstice!
blessed be
Thanks for the catalan representation! It's always nice when our traditions are shown to the world!
All right I figured out what I’m doing next Christmas hands-down this is the best Christmas tradition I have ever seen and I love it so much
Screw doing Santa with my future kids! I want to do the shitting log!
My god, that was amazing, the song almost made me cry out of laugh
Hi from Catalonia.
Great video and good pronunciation singing the song. ;)
Dude just by the beginning I can tell this is going to bop.
Why isn't this more popular? Sounds like a good time.
"And what do you do in Christmas?
I hit with a stick a shiting log and receive presents"
This is the true meaning of Christmas
The Occitans and the Aragonese have this same character, though under different names and slightly different traditions. In Aragon, the Tronca de Nadal (among a couple other names) and in Occitania, the Cachafuòc/Cachafuec (among about ten other names with dialectal variations).
em pregunto perque serà heheheheh
@@delarkaBCN Perquè tots aquests territoris estàn units històrica i culturalment per la corona d'aragó i Jaume primer
I believe this tradition still survives in Catalonia as something mainstream because of its nationalism and resistance to being assimilated into the whole spanish culture.
I wonder how many traditions we have lost or have nearly disappeared because of that. :(
@@herman1francis Occitània sus la corona d'Aragon? Lo sud solament.
@@asdf-un9gs We catalans are very proud of our traditions history and language. We will try to preserve as much of our heritage as possible. We are not spanish, we are catalan.
As a catalan fan of this channel for over 10 years you have no idea how happy this episode made me. I actually shed a tear of joy. Your rendition of the song was fantastic. Much love. Bon nadal i felices festes desde Catalunya!
& now you know why people say "beat the sh*t out of..."
also, Turrrrrrón, gotta rrrrroll those R's my dude =p joking aside, Feliz Navidad everyone
Feliz Navidad!
bon nadal
Feeding the log Ex-Lax would be more effective though.
Bon Nadal!
Que tingueu molt bones festes
“Kids treat Tío nicely. Ok, who’s ready to beat him with a stick!?”
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EPISODE FOR SO LONG!!!
in some small villages in Greece you have to wash your elders feat, and leave the room, and when you come back, the water that you used turned into presents.
There's a classic Quebec folktale which has a certain resonance this year, where a bunch of lumberjacks stuck out at camp and lonely make a deal with the devil to go home for Christmas eve in a flying canoe. But if they commit sacriliege, their souls belong to him and they're eternally damned.
La chasse gardée!
@@Game_Hero Plutôt la chasse-galerie! Apparently comes from the wild hunt myths of Europe.
You nail it with that song! Nice catalán, I must say ❤
In Australia Santa is sometimes depicted as riding a sleigh pulled by kangaroos instead of reindeer
Prolly cuz Christmas is in summer there
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Also, no deers in Australia!
Mine are the ones you talked this year so... Your catalan was pretty good, and it's always interesting hearing about tradicions you gave for granted from an outsider lens
We NEED a hanukkah episode!!!!
That would be an extra history one
yes we do
Honestly, a story about a pooping log seems fitting for this year.
Tió: “I live in Spain... *but without the S* .”
"Beating the Poop out of a happy little log." This line made me laugh out loud.
For anyone listening, it's not pronounced TEE oh, but tee OH. That's what the little line over the o means in TIÓ, that the stress is on the o, not on the i.
This is really a curious thing because I am from Spain, actually Madrid and we don't have that tradition at all, but the thing is that in everypart of the country you have little things that other people don't and you can be surprised by these kind of things in your own country XD
Que tradición rara tenéis en Madrid?
@@cramw139 hablamos como "Los Serrano"
igual es por el hecho de que para algunos, españa es castilla...
Though the Three King's tradition is big all over the Spanish Speaking world. In modern Mexico you get gifts by both Santa on Christmas Eve and the "Reyes Magos" on the Epiphany. Depending on how much the parents can afford: usually Santa brings the expensive gift and the "Reyes" a smaller gift or candy.
I did not expect our weird cultural tradition to be in here lmao
There is no such thing as a weird cultural tradition.
@@lhistorienchipoteur9968 fair, fair
I feel strangely deprived that I was never allowed to beat the s*** out of a log for presents as a child
@@mrspeigle1 rip u
As a catalan, I did not know (or at least I didn't remember) that the Tió finished shitting presents by shitting a fish or an onion. So, thanks for that :)
My doctor told me to keep a defecation log, so I corrected him with correct Catalan terminology.
It's going to be a fun Christmas!
It's LOOOOOOOG, LOOOOOOOOG. It's big, it's heavy, it's wood. It's LOOOOOOG, LOOOOOOG. It's better than bad, it's Good!
Must say the Catalan pronunciation was pretty accurated (an I am Catalan ;) ) BTW what a nice surprise this video was. Happy Christmas! ^^ 💩🎄💩🎄💩🎄💩🎄💩🎄💩🎄
so many catalan fans of extra credits
This isn’t strictly Christmas (it’s Epiphany) but in Italy we have la Befana who visits kids and gives them sweet coal and candy on her way to find the three wise men
One correction, the big presents being brought by the three Kings on the 6th of January or the sweet turrón aren't traditions exclusive to Catalonia, but to all Spain and even some Latin American countries. The three King's are a Catholic tradition in general, after all. And the most traditional form of turrón originated in Valencia, which is located more to the south. To be more specific, in Jijona, Alicante.
Man, the Catalans really beat the crap outta the log!
Why does the log remind me of Thomas the Tank Engine...
Dat face..
Tube with a face.
Kids love him even though he's really kinda shitty? 💩
Thomas the Tankin Dankin
@@scottydu81 ah i see youre a fan of caddicarus
this Caga Tió design gives me the feeling of "I'm inside this log pls help me"
At Christmas (a polish tradition bc I’m half polish) is that everyone takes part of a wafer and we take a little bit of everyone else’s and they take a little bit of ours and hug them after the exchange. We then (of course) eat the wafer bits that we have.
Well, in tradizional Italian nativities, we have both a drunk man and a sleeping man. Still can't beat the shitter, though...
Me (a catalan fan of Extra Credits after seing this video): ö
No m'hagués esperat mai sentir un yankee cantar la cançó del caga tió lmao
@@modustrollens4806 per ser honestos la paraula "arengades" no és que sigui gens fàcil hahah
@@modustrollens4806 llastima que pronuncii com si fos castellà
@@delarkaBCN a mí en sona afrancesat, més que castellà
@@didacmarti4426 han fet el millor que han pogut i trob que tampoc els hi ha sortit pas malament
Funny enough I’m watching this on Christmas while on the toilet
m'encanta que hàgiu fet el tió, now i'm the happiest person on earth 😂😂😂
Jajaja si!
visca el cagatió i visca catalunya
Me being catalan: * instant click *
Also singing in my head: _~caga tió, avellanes i turrons, si no cagues be et donarem cop de bastó~_