The document describes the tradition of the "pooping log" or "tió" in Catalonia and Aragon, Spain around Christmas time. Children would feed the log and cover it with a blanket until Christmas Eve when they would beat it with sticks for it to "poop out" gifts like candy and nuts. The tradition has evolved to include painted wooden trunks that are brought into homes and fed until they gift the children on Christmas Eve. The document also provides a recipe for a traditional Catalan egg custard dessert made with milk, eggs, sugar and cinnamon.

2. The guy is a
celebration
shits typical
in Catalonia
and the
territories
of Aragon

3.  The day begins
December 8 to feed
the shit guy every
night and usually
cover with a blanket
to get cold at night.
Is fed until Christmas
Eve, and then the
uncle, beaten with
sticks by children,
"shit out" gifts for
children.

4.  A log which, when burned, gave precious goods such as
heat and light, and symbolically offered to present the
house: candy, wafers, nougat. We can still find, in the
villages, houses in which the "uncle" is a large trunk which
is set to burn in the fire of earth a few days before
Christmas.
 From this primitive form "Uncle" evolves: "Uncle" is a
magical trunk one day closer to Christmas Eve, December
24, comes home knocking on the door. Anyone at home
opens and you have to take care, cover her with a blanket
to get cold and feed to the 24 at night time when "the shit
man." Subsequently, as in the cities people had it harder to
buy a trunk, and because all you can do business, began
to sell "tions". All are sold more or less the same: they
usually wear a beret, with a smiling face and very often
also two front legs. Originally, none were the same
because it was just a large log to an adult to paint a face
as I wanted.

5. shit dude
almonds and nougat
not screw up herring
that are too salty
shits nougat
that are more good
shits tió
almonds and nougat
if you want shit
I'll give you a stroke of
cane
Shit man!

7.  Heat milk with cinnamon
 1 liter of milk and lemon rind
 4 egg yolks  Beat the yolks with the
 2 tablespoons sugar and cornstarch
cornstarch  Pour the milk over the
 Cinnamon yolks while bats
 lemon peel  Put the mixture into the
 200 g. sugar fire, without boiling, until
thickened
 distribute it in clay pots
and let it cool. Put a layer
of sugar and burn it with
a shovel