Nativity Scene and Caganer, the Catalan pooping man

This Christmas Nativity Scene includes 9 figurines:
- Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus
- a donkey and an ox
- the three wise man
- and the most unique and funny Catalan Christmas figurine: the Caganer (Catalan Christmas Pooper)

What is Caganer?

The Christmas caganer is one of the most traditional and original Christmas nativity scene figures in Catalonia. The caganer is the figure of a man with a red Catalan barretina and a Catalan scarf… Pooping!

As Joan Fornés i Garcia explains in his book “El Tió de Nadal: orígens i tradició”, according to the folklorist Joan Amades the character of the caganer of the popular nativity scene is related to the fertilization rituals shared among many peoples of Europe:

“This figure was obligatory in the nineteenth-century nativity scenes, as people said that with its deposition femava the earth of the crib, which became fertile and ensured the manger for the following year and with it the health and tranquility of body and soul that there is to make the crib, with the joy and happiness that Christmas brings to the home.

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