That´s how I would translate what we shouted last night during the annual ´Gritaria,´ or shouting match. The Gritaria only takes place in Leon, and celebrates the end of the last really violent eruption of Cerro Negro, one of our neighboring volcanoes.
It was very much like Halloween, in that we were rewarded for shouting at people´s doorsteps. However, unlike Halloween, the people doling out treats would respond, ´La Concepcion de Maria,´ at which point my lone English student William would say, ´La Virgen,´ and I would mumble something that sounded like ´La Virgen.´ Then they would hand over the bootie.
Among my bootie: six boxes of matches, a pacifier, laundry detergent, a cross, two combs, and candy.
As a gringo I was given preferential treatment, and often received special bootie. This, I imagine, explains the pacifier.
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