Mud figures of Barcelona's soccer players Samuel Eto'o and Carles Puyol, known as "caganer" ordefecatorin Catalan, are sold at the Santa Llucia Market, a Christmas market, in central Barcelona December 14, 2005. Catalans create ChristmasNativityscenes using models and hide the figures, known as "caganer" or defecator in Catalan, in them before inviting friends to find the figures. Catalans believe the "caganer", by creatingfaeces, fertiliser the earth, bringing prosperity and luck for the coming year. (Reuters)
Mud figures of Barcelona's soccer player Samuel Eto'o, known as "caganer" or defecator in Catalan, are sold at the Santa Llucia Market, a Christmas market, in central Barcelona December 14, 2005. (Reuters)
Vocabulary:
caganer: a little statue unique to Catalonia, Spain, means defecator （西班牙加泰羅尼亞地區特有的一種小泥人，被稱為“排便者”。人們認為它給大地施肥，把它看成來年豐收繁榮的象征。）
Nativity: （基督誕生）
faeces: also feces （糞便，排泄物）
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Updated: 2005-12-15 08:59
