Catalan mud figures mark Christmas
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-12-05 10:30
Mud figures, of Spanish soccer club Barcelona's Lionel Messi, Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, coach Frank Rijkaard, Samuel Eto'o and Carles Puyol (L-R), known as "caganer" (defecator in Catalan language) are sold at the Santa Llucia Christmas market, in central Barcelona December 4, 2007. Catalans create Christmas Nativity scenes using models and hide the figures in them before inviting friends to find the figures. Catalans believe the "caganer", by creating faeces, fertilises the earth and brings prosperity and luck for the coming year. [Agencies]
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