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 ...

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 ...

A towering "rain control" site, where shamans would have asked the gods to open up the skies centuries ago, has been discovered in South Africa. Located in a semiarid area of the country, near ...

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 ...

With severe drought gripping Gangneung, an eastern coastal city in Gangwon, the Gangneung Danoje Preservation Committee performed a traditional rainmaking ritual called giuje on Saturday. According to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Villagers in the Tzaneen area of Limpopo have turned to the newly crowned Rain Queen Masalanabo Modjadji VII for rain to quench their thirst. This is after several boreholes recently drilled by the ...

"Ritual reversals" or "rituals of rebellion" are concepts used for mock rituals performed in Southern and Eastern Africa. During fertility rituals, like rain ceremonies, women in their songs and ...