Every family has their own holiday tradition that they do every year, but is yours different from everyone else? Here are seven unique holiday traditions that a lot of people don't really know about.

1. The Christmas Pickle

In the 1880s Woolworth stores started selling glass ornaments imported from Germany and some were in the shape of different fruit and vegetables. Around that time it was claimed that the Christmas Pickle was an old German tradition and that the pickle was the last ornament hung on the Christmas tree and whatever child finds the pickle first will get an extra present.

2.Tió de Nadal (The Christmas Poop Log)

Kids in Spain's Catalan region are coming together in their homes for the traditional whacking of the "shit log".

Tió de Nadal (Christmas log), is a hollow log with sticks for legs, a happy face, and a floppy red hat other names for it is Caga Tió or "shit log".

On the 8th of December, every year families bring out the happy log. Every night until December 24, children have to "feed" the log by giving him nuts, dried fruit, and water. Kids also have to cover Tió de Nadal with a blanket to make sure that the log is warm and always comfortable. On Christmas Eve, it is time for the little shit log to shine. Children gather around the log and beat him with sticks while singing its traditional Tió de Nadal song:

Shit log,
Shit nougats,
Hazelnuts and mató cheese,
If you don't shit well,
I'll hit you with a stick,
Shit log!

After singing the song the children much lift up the blanket to find out that he has pooped a surprise of presents and candy. When everyone has finished collecting these gifts the family will burn the log for warmth.

3. Finland Cemetery Tradition

In Finland in the 1920s people started to place candles on soldiers graves who fought in world war I. This Created the tradition to visit your buried family members at sunset on Christmas Eve. A lot of cemeteries and churches hold brief services with hymns and moments of reflection while family members lay lanterns and light candles to put on their graves in honor of them. Often a special section is created for people who have relatives buried far away, so they can pay their own tribute to their family members too.

4. The Throwing of the Shoe

In the Czech Republic its traditions around Christmas time where women to will throw their shoe and if the shoe is pointing at them they will get married in the next year.

5. La Benfana in Italy

In Italy, a traditional holiday celebration (post-Christmas) tells a story of a witch named La Befana who comes on her broomstick during the night on the 5th of January with toys and sweets for the good children and lumps of coal for all bad children.

6. Throwing Pudding

On Christmas day in Slovakia, it's custom for the oldest in the house to throw pudding on the ceiling. The more that sticks to the ceiling the more the luck!

7. The Legend of the Christmas Spider

In Ukraine, Christmas trees are decorated with artificial spider webs and it all started from one widow and her children. The story goes that Poor women couldn't afford to decorate her Christmas tree, on Christmas morning when she and her kids woke up a spider and placed webs all on the tree. The spider's webs shined gold and silver when the sun hits them.

Even if you celebrate your holiday season with pudding, witches, spiders, or poop logs I hope you have a holiday season!