The oddest Christmas conventions in the world

Watching cartoons of Donald Duck, roller skating to church . are strange Christmas celebrations in countries.

Catch wood for confectionery (Catalonia)

Customary originating from Catalan, Spain still circulates today.Caga Tio is the name of a tree, the symbol of the Christmas season. People painted their faces and tied their feet to the log of the original shell to be personified. In the first two weeks of December, the landlord gave this wooden man "to eat" candies and nuts every day through a hollow hole in the middle and covered with a red blanket. By Christmas Eve, they set up the tree before the fireplace and struck with sticks until the woods released confectionery and nuts that had been fed earlier, singing and singing traditional Christmas songs.

Watch Donald Duck cartoons (Sweden)

Christmas for Swedes is like some other countries, especially for close family and friends. Every year, at 3 pm on Christmas day, families gather in front of the TV to watch 'Donald Duck and friends' and some other funny cartoons. This TV program is called 'From All of Us to All of You', or a dialect called Kalle Anka , is shown on a channel at 3pm on December 24th since 1959. The Swedes watch it return to this program every year but have never been bored but always eager to wait. Whenever the TV station was about to stop showing, they were faced with intense public opposition.

Devil Krampus threatens children (Austria, Germany)

These two countries have a habit of threatening children by wearing Krampus devil costumes hanging around the street to scare Santa's blacklisted children. The demon Krampus is the twin brother opposite of Santa, having the task of 'kidnapping' spoiled children and 'eating' them on Christmas Eve. The Krampus demon incarnation took a whip around the town to chase the children. This strange custom originated in the German Alps and spread throughout Hungary, Bavaria, Slovenia, especially popular in Austria.

Rollerblading to church (Venezuela)

Venezuela started to celebrate Christmas from December 16 with an early morning ceremony called Misa de Aguinaldo, everyone attended by rollerblading. The streets are blocked until 8am to ensure safety for the roller skates. In addition, before going to bed the night before, the children in the town even tied a string to their big toe and tied the end of the string to the window. Those who go to the ceremony to pass by will snatch the rope to wake up the children.

Black-faced dwarf Piet (Netherlands)

Traditionally in the Netherlands, for three weeks before December 5, every night children put wooden clogs in front of the fireplace.Sinterklaus 's assistant is the black-faced dwarf Piet (Zwarte Piet), who will climb down the chimney to fill candy and toys into wooden clogs for good kids, while Sinterklaus and the white horse will wait on the roof. . In addition, it is believed that bad children will be taken to Spain to punish. On this day, children, adults disguise and paint black faces into dwarfs Piet travels the streets to distribute candies.

Statue of defecation (Spain)

Canage r is a statue of a man with a red hat like Santa Claus, his hands pulling his pants down over his knees, and under his heels are a " pile of" waste products . This is a symbol of fertility and equality of people. Every year, at Christmas, people often buy the statue of Caganer and put money into the statue, then hide them in the feeding troughs of children to search for children. Caganer is also transformed into cartoon figures of famous characters in all fields.

Sleep on the floor in Finland

The Finns believe that, on Christmas Eve, beds in the house will be reserved for the dead, so they choose to sleep on the floor.

Also in Finland, Christmas is also the occasion for people in this country to go to the grave to remember the dead. They often prepare meals for the deceased, lighting small candles together at the ancestral grave to create a sparkling scene at the cemetery.

Customary throwing shoes of single women in Czech

Christmas is a special occasion for single women in the Czech Republic. They will stand with their backs to the gate, throw their shoes over their shoulders. If shoes turn to the door, next year they will find a mate. If shoes turn on the door, these girls will continue to live alone.

Eat KFC fried chicken in Japan

Instead of eating turkey like Western countries, Japanese people have a rather strange tradition of Christmas eating Kentucky fried chicken. On this day KFC stores all over Japan operate at full capacity, and people often order whole buckets of fried chicken to eat with their families at Christmas. Christmas cake is also popular in Japan. They are not fruit cakes but round cakes with two layers of white chocolate or cream and Santa Claus above.

In addition, people in the sunrise country send each other white cards that symbolize purity during Christmas, not red as in other countries. Because according to them, red is used only to write obituaries.

Decorate Christmas trees with spider web in Ukraine

Ukrainians use spider webs to decorate Christmas trees and say that the first person to see spider webs on pine trees on Christmas morning will be lucky all year.

This communication comes from a folk legend about a poor Ukrainian family, who has no money to buy pine decorations during the holidays. Unexpectedly the next morning, the children in the house woke up and saw the pine tree covered with spider web in gold and silver. Since then, Ukrainians believe that covering spider webs on Christmas trees will help families become prosperous and prosperous.

Hide in Norway

On Christmas, the Norwegian people are particularly afraid of the appearance of witches and evil spirits. They often hide all the brooms so that the witches cannot detect and use them. Women hide themselves in the house while men go to the streets and shoot guns just to scare the ghosts.

Santa and machine gun in the US

The United States is known for its easy use of guns, but it is even more special when gunfire culture is also attached to Christmas. In Arizona, USA , Scottsville gun club celebrates the "Santa Claus and machine gun" event every Christmas.

On this occasion, all members of this club will bring together "show off" "big" guns from rifles, hunting rifles or machine guns and sit around Santa Claus to take photos. Every year, hundreds of people line up to attend this event.

Chase Santa in Switzerland

In the city of Kussnacht, Switzerland at Christmas takes place an extremely interesting festival called Chasing Santa Claus . During the 2-hour festival, the local people will use whips longer than 2m to chase after Santa.

After that, about 200 people will exchange colorful giant hats down the parade street. After the hat parade, more than 1,000 other people will march across the streets, taking rattles, prisoners and or whatever can make loud sounds. The people of Kussanacht believe that the bigger the sound, the more evil spirits will be chased away. It is estimated that more than 20,000 people come here every year to follow this unique festival.

Remembrance of relatives in Portugal

In Portugal, Christmas is not only a reunion of relatives, but also an occasion to remember their deceased relatives. Families always place more seats on the dining table for the deceased relatives in the hope that they will bring good luck to the family members.

Noel Tree has 1-0-2 in India

India has only about 2.3% of the population in the Catholic Church but in the world's most populous country, this figure is equivalent to 25 million people. During Christmas, a person eating and drinking and giving each other meaningful gifts. But here, they use banana trees or mangoes to decorate the pine tree to celebrate Christmas.

New Zealand : Instead of using pine trees, New Zealanders use Pohotukawa trees to decorate on Christmas day.

Guatemala : The people of this country swept away their homes on Christmas day. Then the neighbors create piles of rubbish when they come to the house by placing a straw mannequin and burning it.

Bavaria: In Bavaria, Christmas is quite 'noisy'. In traditional shorts, mountain people shoot up mortars in the sky.

Slovakia: In Slovakia, the biggest voice in the house will throw a spoon of loksa cake on the ceiling. The longer the cake clings to the ceiling, the more fortunate the family will be.

Iceland: Icelanders believe that the Yule cat is lurking on the hills. Those who don't receive new clothes the night before Christmas will be torn by this ferocious monster.

South Africa: South African children are told the story of Danny, a boy who has left her words to eat cookies for Santa. Because of this, the boy's grandmother . killed him and the boy ghost haunting houses on Christmas day.

Estonia: On the eve of Christmas, everyone in the family in Estonia often comes together.

Ethiopia: Ethiopians celebrate Christmas on January 7. Everyone wears white clothes and men play ganna, a game with wooden balls and sticks.

Greenland : Greenland has some very weird Christmas dishes like Mattak or Kiviak. Mattak is a whale skin with a fat strip inside or Kiviak is a dish made of the body of a seabird wrapped in seal skin and for complete decomposition within 7 months.