Iqiqu

As here we can't have anything in real life, we are experts on wishing things.
There are two major dates when we express these wishes: "Alasitas" and "Fiesta del Espiritu".

The world Alasita means "you buy to me" in Aymara, so it's easy to guess that the wishes will be somehow material.

According to the legend, during the siege of the city of La Paz in 1781 by Tupak Katari and his people, people in the city hadn't any food or supplies except for one family. In this family, the maid that was giving to her bosses those supplies and when they would ask her how she got them, she answered that it was a little statue that was giving them to her.

Since then, here in La Paz, we worship a little statue called the Iqiqu (pronounce Ekeko). The 24th of January, we make him smoke surrounded by all the miniaturized objects we want to have during the year.