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Christmas in Weird Germany 3: Smoking Men

| Holiday, Weird Germany

Whenever I burn incense in the house, it makes Andreas think of Christmas, thanks to the smoking men that burst out of attic storage come December. Glorified incense burners, smoking men usually come in the form of wooden figurines, often with nods to various professions, or sometimes as animals. I have the dubious pleasure of owning an outhouse that smokes through the chimney. Most are classy, the one in the video below being my favourite. After six years, I too have begun to associate incense with Christmas. Well, that and my pot smoking days.