The celebration of All Souls’ Day at Ácoma and Laguna is unquestionably an inheritance of early Catholic training, albeit at Zuñi Dr. Parsons was told that it was a ritual of their own race, and not one engrafted from any other. At nightfall in Ácoma on November 1 or 2[241] the informant of Dr. Parsons “guessed” that parties of possibly as many as ten boys go about the streets calling out “_Tsalemo, Salemo_,” at the same time ringing a bell. This custom, according to Professor Espinosa, is a purely Spanish one, and the words used as they beg for food are an Indian corruption of the first words of an “invocation undoubtedly taught their ancestors by Spanish padres: ‘_Tsalemo, Saremo, Oremo, Soremo._’”[242] The boys are given food, and other food is taken to the cemetery and placed at the foot of the wooden cross standing there, near which the war chiefs are on guard. By next morning all the food has disappeared. Dr. Parsons[243] speaks of the “Mexican prayer: _Padre Spirito Santo_, Amen” as part of the celebration, but, according to Professor Espinosa, “these Indian vocables are regular phonetic developments of the first three words of the Catholic ceremony: _por la señal_.” The current familiar pronunciation is _pol la seña_. Professor Espinosa gives the whole prayer as the Indian mumbles it, with the Spanish words below, as follows: _Polasenyá_ _ela Santa_ _kulusi_ _lenuishta_ _Por la señal_ _de la santa_ _Cruz_ _de nuestros_ _inimiku_ _liplansiniola_ _ios_ _inimipali_ _enemigos_ _libranos señor_ _Dios_ _en nombre el padre_ _eleho_ _eleshpintu_ _Santu_ _amikiasusi_ _del hijo_ _y el espirítu_ _Santo_ _Amén Jesús_ The celebration in December is longer, and in certain respects more elaborate, than either of the others, though it is less like a pageant than the _fiesta_ of St. Stephen, and, as has been said elsewhere, it is a curious complex of pagan and Christian customs. The whole celebration is known in Mexican as _fiesta del Re_, but in Keresan it is _Koachansiwatsask_. It is preceded by the warrior dance called _hoinawe_. Dr. Parsons was not allowed to witness the preparation of the songs composed for the occasion, which took place in the estufas. The men were summoned to the dance by officers, who walked through the three avenues, crying out their summons. Four Circuits are made, one officer following another through “North Row”; “Middle Row”; and “Last Row,” for the custom characteristic of other pueblos of calling out the orders from the house-top is not found in Ácoma.