North Khorasan province suffers from droughts and lacks water, so rainmaking is one of the major rituals held during spring and autumn there. This tradition is still alive in the province, in which a ...

The arid climate of Iran has always been a concern for people throughout history, which has culminated in various rituals, such as rain dances to rain prayers, across the country. In the southwestern ...

Tainan’s Orthodox Luermen Shengu Temple (正統鹿耳門聖母廟) decked out its Matsu statue in a new costume, with a litter and porter, for a rainmaking ritual at Nantou County’s Sun Moon Lake (日月潭) this weekend.

Some more seven items in the region including the skill of baking Berko bread, Kicheh Sineh-Zani [beating the chest] ceremony, and the skill of Tarkeh-bafi, a kind of wickerwork was also added to the ...

Residents of three villages in Nakhon Sawan province in Thailand paraded a plush toy of the popular robot cat Doraemon in place of a real cat as part of a rainmaking ritual, as the country experiences ...

Seeking to appease the god of storms and end a drought, men and women in tiger costumes whip each other in an ancient ritual. A boy wears a tiger costume in the town of Zitlala in southern Mexico ...

The Kit Mikayi Shrine for the Seme people, other Luo tribes and neighbouring communities has traditionally been a place of worship and performing rituals. Community elders would conduct rainmaking ...

CHARRED remains of ancient rainmaking fires are helping to date droughts in Iron Age Africa to within 20 years. After a several years of little or no rainfall, the Bantu people near modern-day ...

She is a 12-year-old schoolgirl who aspires to become a doctor. But Masalanabo Modjadji is no ordinary pre-teen -- she is South Africa's only female traditional ruler, with claims of mystical ...