The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook six

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rain making

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	28.8.1936-26.10.1936
refnum:	School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

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(13) Rain making.

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There is no real ceremony for rain making in Tamlu, only the morung boys make bull-roarers of bamboo and swing them. Then there will be a similar noise in the sky, it will thunder and rain.

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In Wakching the boys catch a crab and hang it just above the surface of the water. Then it will rain. There is no ceremony to stop rain. For making rain the Wakching boys whirl bull-roarers made of flat wood.

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