Caga Tió, the pooping log, is a widespread Christmas tradition in Catalonia. It all starts with a hollowed out log, which is propped up on four little leg-like sticks and then painted to have a face. Every night, beginning December 8, Caga Tió is “fed” and covered with a blanket (so that he doesn’t catch a cold).

In Catalan popular cultures, there is a large number of legends about witches.

In many countries, a bogeyman-like creature is portrayed as a man with a sack on his back who carries naughty children away. In Catalonia “l’home del sac”  is usually depicted as a mean and impossibly ugly and skinny old man who eats the misbehaving children he collects.

The Nose Man is a Catalan mythological character that has as many noses as days has the current year, and you can only see him on December 31. Children imagine a quirky character with 365 noses on his face, not thinking that December 31 is the last day of the year, therefore, that Nose Man has only one nose.

And here is the first legend of a series of Catalan legends that our 2nd graders chose for this project.

Kids, you just did a great job!

This is just a preview of the Catalan legends that students in 2nd grade have been working on. We will publish them very soon and will send them to our Turkish colleagues. 🙂