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The Eye
4 January 2015 0.00 h

Barcelona

Catalan Christmas crapper still the best

Christ­mas is gone, but 2014's Cata­lan poop­ers are here to stay. In this pic­ture, clay ca­gan­ers are dis­played at the Santa Llu­cia Christ­mas mar­ket in cen­tral Barcelona. Tourists are al­ways shocked, but lots of them go back home with a ca­ganer as proof of what they have seen, so that their friends be­lieve them when they ex­plain that Cata­lans hide ca­gan­ers, or crap­pers, in Christ­mas na­tiv­ity scenes to let friends hunt for them dur­ing Christ­mas cel­e­bra­tions. The ca­gan­ers, which sym­bol­ises the fer­til­iza­tion of the earth, are be­lieved to bring pros­per­ity and luck for the com­ing year. It used to be a sim­ple Cata­lan farmer, but nowa­days your pooper can be Cap­tain Amer­ica, Madonna, Fred­die Mer­cury, La Grossa lot­tery, Spain's queen Letizia and King Fe­lipe IV, Ital­ian politi­cian Beppe Grillo, Britain's Prince Charles and Prince William, Cather­ine the Duchess of Cam­bridge, Scot­land's First Min­is­ter Alex Salmond or India's prime min­is­ter, Naren­dra Modi. For­get about Castellers, the best Cata­lan tra­di­tion ever is the Christ­mas crap­per.

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