Around the world, people put on roller skates, march with a horse's skull, and hide their brooms in the name of holiday tradition. 

Check out 12 of the weirdest festive traditions from around the world 

We're not sure if this is a nice gesture or kind of creepy. 

If you’re in Finland, you will probably spend Christmas Eve sleeping on the floor. 

This is so that the dead can use your bed for the night. Christmas is a time of remembrance for them. 

It’s also tradition to prepare a meal for the dead and visit the cemetery to light a candle.

Single women in the Czech Republic will stand on their porches and throw their shoes on Christmas day.

It’s a tradition to toss a shoe over your shoulder with your back to the door. If the shoe lands pointing at the door, you will soon be married.

If not, you’d better start watching Bridget Jones’ Diary on repeat. 

Finger licking Christmas? 

In Japan, it’s just not Christmas without a bucket of the Colonel’s best.

The chain will sell 240,000 barrels of chicken during Christmas. People have their names added to waiting lists to ensure they’ll have the required chicken for the Christmas feast.

The tradition started when turkey was not see as palatable on December 25, but fried chicken was seen as an alternative.  

Children go to sleep on Christmas Eve with a string tied around their big toe in Caracas, Venezuela.

The other end of the string hangs out of the bedroom window. Everyone wakes on Christmas morning and puts on roller skates.

Streets are closed until 8am for the skaters going to early morning mass. As they pass, they pull on any strings still hanging from the windows.

Spiderwebs are a must-have Christmas tree decoration in Ukraine, and if you happen to see a spiderweb on Christmas morning you’ll have good luck.

The tradition comes from an old folk tale about a woman who was too poor to hang decorations on her Christmas tree.

But that Christmas morning, the children woke up to see the tree covered in webs. When the magical light of Christmas touched the webs, they became threads of gold and silver.

The family never wanted for anything again.

The Nativity scene is a common Christmas sight. In Spain, it’s also common to hide little figurines in the Nativity.

They’re called caganers, and they are little people who are pooping. The figurines are meant to represent fertilization and prosperity.

In recent years, it’s common to buy caganers that look like famous people. Nothing says “Merry Christmas” as well as a defecating Barack Obama. 

For hundreds of years in Norway, the woman of the house has been hiding all the brooms on Christmas Eve.

That’s because witches come out on Christmas Eve specifically to look for brooms. What, you didn't know that? 

Everyone knows about Santa Claus, a jolly old guy who likes to give kids toys. You may not know about Santa’s nemesis, Krampus.

This demon character punishes the bad kids the same way that Santa rewards the good ones.

Men dress like the demon to wander the streets and frighten children during Christmas in Austria, where Krampus has his own parades. 

The Mari Lwyd ritual is an incredibly old Christmas tradition in Wales, and the passage of time only makes it seem more strange.

First, you’re going to need the skull of a horse, a mare, if you please. This must be secured to a wooden pole.

The pole and the lucky person who gets to hold it are covered in sheets, because it’s the skull that matters, and it’s carried around the village while everyone sings Christmas songs.

The whole event becomes super-fancy when the horse’s jaw is rigged so it can snap at people. Mari Lwyd means grey mare, and this is a true story.

Spain is really, really preoccupied with poop at Christmas time.

In addition to their Nativity scene shenanigans, Spanish people paint a face and attach legs to a tio, or tree trunk.

Every night, the log is “fed” by the children of the house and covered with a nice little blanket to keep him warm.

On Christmas Day, the log is put in the fireplace and told to poop. To facilitate this, the children beat the log with sticks.

At this time, of course, you must sing “Tio de Nadal.” Candies and nuts come out of the log, and everyone eats them. 

The United States can get pretty weird, too. Especially, apparently, in Arizona. Every year, the Scottsville Gun Club hosts the “Santa and Machine Guns” event.

Bring every member of the family on down to pick out an assault rifle, grenade launcher, shotgun, or machine gun. Now go sit in Santa’s lap with it. If you’re uncomfortable with guns, never worry.

There is a team of elves on standby, always ready to give you a quick gun safety lesson. Hundreds of people line up around the block to enjoy this event. 

Switzerland’s Klausjagan festival translates into “chasing the Klaus.”

For two hours, the villagers use 8-foot whips to chase Santa Claus around. Then, 200 people wearing giant glowing hats parade down the street.

Around 20,000 people watch the spectacle, which occurs on St. Nicholas Day (Dec. 5). After the glowing hats, more than 1,000 villagers march down the street with cow bells, horns, and anything else that will make a loud noise.

All this is done to chase away evil spirits, naturally.