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Castrillo de Murcia in Spain.
It’s a nice sunny day.
What shall we do?
I know, we’ll take our babies out for the day and lie them on mattresses in the street.
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This nice Catholic tradition of lying our babies
on mattresses in the street goes back to 1620.
It’s called El Colacho.
It’s holy. The priests are here. They love it too.
But what’s this?
OH NO!
Here comes The Devil!!
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Phew, he isn’t going to smite us!
He just wants to jump over our babies
to cleanse them of original sin.
That’s all right then.
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BOING
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BOING
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BOING
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BOING
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BOING
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BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING
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That was a lovely day out.
Now we’ll go home for tea.
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Mondrak
/ August 26, 2012Hmmm, too tempting to mis-jump lol
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Mondrak,
HORROR!!! Do you want to squash the poor babies!!
Love Dotty xxx
Mondrak
/ August 28, 2012ME?? The thought never crossed my mind (it just got half way and stayed there
)
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Mondrak,
I should hope it did. But if I see any reports of mysterious baby-squashing incidents I’ll have to grass you up.
Love Dotty xxx
Mondrak
/ August 28, 2012LOL, I’ll have to make sure no-one sees hehe
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Mondrak,
I’ll still know it’s you. And when I start going out again and I see loads of kids running round with foot-shaped faces, I’LL HAVE TO TELL ON YOU.
Love Dotty xxx
unfetteredbs
/ August 26, 2012wtf?? no way no how would I leave my babies on a mattress for that..
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear bs,
I know. What’s wrong with those women????
Love Dotty xxx
Christopher De Voss
/ August 26, 2012Boing!
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Chris,
BOING BOING BOING BOING BOING.
Love Dotty xxx
Fish Out of Water
/ August 26, 2012What in the ever loving fuck was that? Humans are so weird.
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Fishy,
Weird and unwonderful.
Love Dotty xxx
misslisted
/ August 26, 2012I am speechless. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear misslisted,
Love Dotty xxx
elaine4queen
/ August 26, 2012that is bloody mental.
is all.
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Elaine,
Yep!
Love Dotty xx
poetmcgonagall
/ August 26, 2012That was possibly the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen. Tiny theological quibble: Doesn’t the Devil have a vested interest in not cleansing them of original sin, and doesn’t the RCC say we’re stuck with it anyway?
That’s a lot of trust to place in the jumping bloke. He probably has a stiff drink beforehand to steady his nerves.
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear poet,
That’s what I thought. Why isn’t Jesus jumping over them?
Love Dotty xxx
poetmcgonagall
/ August 28, 2012That would be so much more impressive. They could have tag team baby jumping – Father, Son, and Holy Ghost taking it in turns. Possibly an Olympic event? White, shiny, Evel Knievel jump suits, of course.
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear poet,
I wonder if baby Jesus was the original baby on the mattress and the Holy Trinity couldn’t leap over him because he wasn’t old enough to join the Father and the Holy Ghost, and also it would be impossible for him to jump over HIMSELF! Maybe that’s why the devil does it. Or maybe it’s a minimum wage thing.
Love Dotty xxx
Seb
/ August 26, 2012No wonder Spain is going broke. What a bunch of wasters!
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Seb,
Nutters, the lot of them.
Love Dotty xxx
owl
/ August 26, 2012Dear Dotty,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . .
.
Love,
Owl
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear owl,
.!
Love Dotty xxx
Dorothy
/ August 27, 2012Sorry, no way someone’s going to jump over any baby of mine. It can live in sin until they come up with some other idea that doesn’t involve my baby’s head accidently getting cracked open. Talk about nightmares.
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Dorothy,
I know. IDIOTS!
Love Dotty xxx
Tammy
/ August 27, 2012Is it just me, or does this tradition seem wrong? I wonder how many babies grew up with their noses smushed in from when the person landed wrong? ..
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Brick,
Or their heads caved in!
I looked up baby jumping accidents on google and the only one I could find mention of was the death of a 92 year old man!!
Love Dotty xxx
Tammy
/ August 28, 2012That is crazy!
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Brick,
It is. But true.
Love Dotty xxx
pouringmyartout
/ August 27, 2012I did not know the Devil dresses like Elvis…
What happens if the Devil lands on your baby???
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear pmao,
I suppose you’d be all shook up.
Love Dotty xxx
pouringmyartout
/ August 28, 2012It would suck for your baby to have a hoof-print on its face…
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear pmao,
I know. You’d have to have a wooden heart not to be touched by it.
Love Dotty xxx
pouringmyartout
/ August 28, 2012The devil, you say…
Maggie O'C
/ August 27, 2012Dear Dotty,
We Catholics are a strange bunch. Which reminds me, I never had the devil jump over my children. Oh jeez, gotta get on that and now they are teenagers and probably won’t lie still.
Love,
Maggie
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Maggie,
What? You haven’t had them exorcised yet? I can’t believe you’re such a bad Catholic. Tie them to the mattress, woman. Do it now.
Love Dotty xxx
sacha1nch1
/ August 28, 2012oh my dear dotty dotty dotty
boing……so as ‘charabanc’, ‘wittol’ and ‘frigorific’…….boing…….are words considered by those of such means…..boing……to be ousted from smaller print runs of the dictionary…….boing…….it so seems that ‘catch-up’……boing…….has been so estranged from my life, that your wonderous literary and pictoral offerings…….boing……may well be viewed……boing…….only when the annunciation of a sightseeing bus carrying a man who knows he’s being cheated on and thence catches a chill, has become common parlance once again………….boing……
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear sacha,
Yes, dear.
Love Dotty xxx
sacha1nch1
/ September 3, 2012sorry, did i say something?
Dotty Headbanger
/ September 4, 2012Dear sacha,
Yes, dear!
Love Dotty xxx
sacha1nch1
/ September 4, 2012i must control that……
Sterling Silva
/ August 28, 2012Dear Ms. Headbanger,
I’d hoped to find an Spanish onomatopoeia replacement for the English “boing,” but my studies came up short. The best I can come up with is other noises that would accompany this scene. The “buá buá” of crying babies. The “Cht” of family members and priests trying to hush them. The “bum bum bum” of people’s heartbeats as silence falls and the devil makes his run. An “¡Achú!” when the devil lets a sneeze escape, causing him to miss his jump. A disgusting “Plaf” followed immediately by the “Ayyyyyy!” of a shrieking mother. Then, of course, the “Glup,” for the collective throat swallow of all the horrified onlookers.
Sincerely,
-S
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Mr Silva,
BOING – the word that says it all.
Love Dotty xxx
Carr Party of Five
/ August 28, 2012Dear Dotty,
WTF?!
I know the saying is, “it takes all types to make the world go round”…
but seriously…..
W….T….F??????
Love, Lis
xoxoox
Dotty Headbanger
/ August 28, 2012Dear Lisa,
I know.
They should make the MOTHERS lie down and let the devil jump over them. See how they like it.
Love Dotty xxx
butimbeautiful
/ September 1, 2012That really made me laugh! What the hell! No pictures of squashed babies, well that’s something!
Dotty Headbanger
/ September 1, 2012Dear butimbeautiful,
I thought of Photoshopping a big omelette onto one of the mattresses but then I thought, nah, imagination is MUCH more gory.
Love Dotty xxx